The advent of social networking websites presents further opportunities for criminals to obtain information for use in identity theft, cyber-stalking, and worse activities. This p...
William Newk-Fon Hey Tow, Peter Dell, John Venable
In this paper we address the task of finding topically relevant email messages in public discussion lists. We make two important observations. First, email messages are not isolat...
Wouter Weerkamp, Krisztian Balog, Maarten de Rijke
Blogs, discussion forums and social networking sites are an excellent source for people’s opinions on a wide range of topics. We examine the application of voting theory to “I...
Alfredo Alba, Varun Bhagwan, Julia Grace, Daniel G...
Similarity measures are mechanisms that assign a numeric score indicating how closely two documents, or a document and a query match. The Cosine measure is one of the similarity m...
e-Government systems differ from commercial information systems (IS) in that they frequently encompass strategic goals that go beyond efficiency, effectiveness and economy, and in...