The practice of software development can likely be improved if an externalized model of each programmer's knowledge of a particular code base is available. Some tools already...
Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
We consider experiments to measure the quality of a web search algorithm based on how much total time users take to complete assigned search tasks using that algorithm. We first ...
The Internet has grown tremendously in terms of the number of users who rely on it and the number of organizations that are connected to it. Characterizing how this growth affects...
Anusha Sriraman, Kevin R. B. Butler, Patrick Drew ...
This paper formalizes the semantics of trust and studies the transitivity of trust. On the Web, people and software agents have to interact with “strangers”. This makes trust ...