Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
Transactional workloads are a hallmark of modern OLTP and Web applications, ranging from electronic commerce and banking to online shopping. Often, the database at the core of the...
David T. McWherter, Bianca Schroeder, Anastassia A...
In the last decade, there has been an explosion of online commercial activity enabled by the World Wide Web. An electronic marketplace (e-market) provides an online method to perf...
Adriano M. Pereira, Arlei Silva, Wagner Meira Jr.,...
Many reputation management systems have been developed under the assumption that each entity in the system will use a variant of the same scoring function. Much of the previous wo...
William Conner, Arun Iyengar, Thomas A. Mikalsen, ...
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...