Web spamming techniques aim to achieve undeserved rankings in search results. Research has been widely conducted on identifying such spam and neutralizing its influence. However,...
We show that for every α > 0, there exist n-point metric spaces (X, d) where every “scale” admits a Euclidean embedding with distortion at most α, but the whole space req...
Abstract. Information security risk management (ISRM) heavily depends on realistic impact values representing the resources’ importance in the overall organizational context. Alt...
Leveraging information from relevance assessments has been proposed as an effective means for improving retrieval. We introduce a novel language modeling method which uses inform...
Search engine switching describes the voluntarily transition from one Web search engine to another. In this paper we present a study of search engine switching behavior that combi...