Bulletin Board Systems (BBS), similar to blogs, newsgroups, online forums, etc., are online broadcasting spaces where people can exchange ideas and make announcements. As BBS are b...
Local search algorithms are one of the effective methods for solving hard combinatorial problems. However, a serious problem of this approach is that the search often traps at loca...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing is the hottest, fastest growing application on the Internet. When designing Gnutella-like applications, the most important consideration is the sca...
In this paper, we present a novel image search system, image search by concept map. This system enables users to indicate not only what semantic concepts are expected to appear bu...
Duplication of Web pages greatly hurts the perceived relevance of a search engine. Existing methods for detecting duplicated Web pages can be classified into two categories, i.e. o...