Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
—Social networking web sites, which allow users to create identities and link them to friends who have also created identities, are highly popular. Systems such as Facebook and M...
S. M. A. Abbas, Johan A. Pouwelse, Dick H. J. Epem...
Keyword searching is the most common form of document search on the Web. Many Web publishers manually annotate the META tags and titles of their pages with frequently queried phras...
Hung V. Nguyen, P. Velamuru, Deepak Kolippakkam, H...
This paper introduces a novel link-based ranking algorithm based on a model of focused Web surfers. FocusedRank is described and compared to implementations of PageRank and Topic-...
Philip O'Brien, Tony Abou-Assaleh, Tapajyoti Das, ...
We consider the problem of deep web source selection and argue that existing source selection methods are inadequate as they are based on local similarity assessment. Specificall...