The number of personal multimedia objects, such as digital photographs and videos, are exploding on the web through popular sites such as Flickr, YouTube, and FaceBook hosting bil...
We report about an empirical software engineering course for PhD students. We introduce its syllabus and two different pedagogical strategies. The first strategy is based on indiv...
The new social media sites--blogs, wikis, del.icio.us and Flickr, among others--underscore the transformation of the Web to a participatory medium in which users are actively crea...
A flash crowd is a surge in traffic to a particular Web site that causes the site to be virtually unreachable. We present a theoretical model of flash crowd events and evaluate...
Ismail Ari, Bo Hong, Ethan L. Miller, Scott A. Bra...
A collaborative crawler is a group of crawling nodes, in which each crawling node is responsible for a specific portion of the web. We study the problem of collecting geographical...