We present a simple model in which the worldwide web (www) is created by the interaction of selfish agents, namely document authors, users, and search engines. We show experimental...
Georgios Kouroupas, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H....
The recent trend in the Internet traffic is increasing in requests for dynamic and personalized content. To efficiently serve this trend, several serverside and cache-side fragme...
Topological relations between geographic regions are of interest in many applications. When the exact boundaries of regions are not available, such relations can be established by...
Steven Schockaert, Philip D. Smart, Alia I. Abdelm...
Abstract Searching for entities is an emerging task in Information Retrieval for which the goal is finding well defined entities instead of documents matching the query terms. In t...
Bodo Billerbeck, Gianluca Demartini, Claudiu S. Fi...
Comprehensive coverage of the public web is crucial to web search engines. Search engines use crawlers to retrieve pages and then discover new ones by extracting the pages' o...