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WWW
2005
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
Hardening Web browsers against man-in-the-middle and eavesdropping attacks
Existing Web browsers handle security errors in a manner that often confuses users. In particular, when a user visits a secure site whose certificate the browser cannot verify, th...
José Carlos Brustoloni, Xia Brustoloni
ICS
2005
Tsinghua U.
15 years 11 months ago
Transparent caching with strong consistency in dynamic content web sites
We consider a cluster architecture in which dynamic content is generated by a database back-end and a collection of Web and application server front-ends. We study the effect of t...
Cristiana Amza, Gokul Soundararajan, Emmanuel Cecc...
AAAI
2004
15 years 7 months ago
Methods for Domain-Independent Information Extraction from the Web: An Experimental Comparison
Our KNOWITALL system aims to automate the tedious process of extracting large collections of facts (e.g., names of scientists or politicians) from the Web in an autonomous, domain...
Oren Etzioni, Michael J. Cafarella, Doug Downey, A...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Segment-level display time as implicit feedback: a comparison to eye tracking
We examine two basic sources for implicit relevance feedback on the segment level for search personalization: eye tracking and display time. A controlled study has been conducted ...
Georg Buscher, Ludger van Elst, Andreas Dengel
PPOPP
2010
ACM
16 years 3 months ago
A distributed placement service for graph-structured and tree-structured data
Effective data placement strategies can enhance the performance of data-intensive applications implemented on high end computing clusters. Such strategies can have a significant i...
Gregory Buehrer, Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Shirish...