How do we know if we can afford a particular purchase? We can find out what the payments might be and check our balances on various accounts, but does this answer the question? Wh...
Recommender systems based on user feedback rank items by aggregating users’ ratings in order to select those that are ranked highest. Ratings are usually aggregated using a weig...
Florent Garcin, Boi Faltings, Radu Jurca, Nadine J...
This paper explores the use of social annotations to improve web search. Nowadays, many services, e.g. del.icio.us, have been developed for web users to organize and share their f...
The currently booming search engine industry has determined many online organizations to attempt to artificially increase their ranking in order to attract more visitors to their ...
An approximate search query on a collection of strings finds those strings in the collection that are similar to a given query string, where similarity is defined using a given si...