Recent studies show that a majority of Web page accesses are referred by search engines. In this paper we study the widespread use of Web search engines and its impact on the ecol...
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...
Abstract. In this paper, we consider the problem of predicate encryption and focus on the predicate for testing whether the hamming distance between the attribute X of a data item ...
David W. Cheung, Nikos Mamoulis, W. K. Wong, Siu-M...
Abstract. Much of the research on automated Web Service Composition (WSC) relates it to an AI planning task, where the composition is primarily done offline prior to execution. Rec...