Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service’s discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS behaviors. For service selection ...
We analyze the recent phenomenon termed a Link Bomb, and investigate the optimal attack pattern for a group of web pages attempting to link bomb a specific web page. The typical ...
This paper investigates the influence of different page features on the ranking of search engine results. We use Google (via its API) as our testbed and analyze the result rankin...
Albert Bifet, Carlos Castillo, Paul-Alexandru Chir...
This paper deals with a shared server environment where the server is divided into a number of resource partitions and used to host multiple applications at the same time. In a cas...