Despite the recent advances in search quality, the fast increase in the size of the Web collection has introduced new challenges for Web ranking algorithms. In fact, there are sti...
Bruno M. Fonseca, Paulo Braz Golgher, Bruno P&ocir...
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...
In our research work, we consider that access to semi-structured documents is carried out by a data-oriented query. With different users and a same query, the returned results are ...
While the growing number of learning resources increases the choice for learners, it also makes it more and more difficult to find suitable courses. Thus, improved search capabili...
Given a dataset containing sensitive personal information, a statistical database answers aggregate queries in a manner that preserves individual privacy. We consider the problem ...