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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Matching task profiles and user needs in personalized web search
Personalization has been deemed one of the major challenges in information retrieval with a significant potential for providing better search experience to individual users. Espec...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
User-controllable learning of security and privacy policies
Studies have shown that users have great difficulty specifying their security and privacy policies in a variety of application domains. While machine learning techniques have succ...
Patrick Gage Kelley, Paul Hankes Drielsma, Norman ...
CCS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Provably secure browser-based user-aware mutual authentication over TLS
The standard solution for user authentication on the Web is to establish a TLS-based secure channel in server authenticated mode and run a protocol on top of TLS where the user en...
Sebastian Gajek, Mark Manulis, Ahmad-Reza Sadeghi,...
AUSAI
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Exploiting Ontological Structure for Complex Preference Assembly
When a user is looking for a product recommendation they usually lack expert knowledge regarding the items they are looking for. Ontologies on the other hand are crafted by experts...
Gil Chamiel, Maurice Pagnucco
ATAL
2008
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
The identification of users by relational agents
Virtual agents designed to establish relationships with more than one user must be able to identify and distinguish among those users with high reliability. We descr...
Daniel Schulman, Mayur Sharma, Timothy W. Bickmore
ASMTA
2008
Springer
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13 years 7 months ago
Exact Sojourn Time Distribution in an Online IPTV Recording System
In this paper we analytically derive the sojourn time of a user accessing an online IPTV recording service. Basically, the system consists of a server (or server farm) and the band...
Tobias Hoßfeld, Kenji Leibnitz, Marie-Ange R...
ACMDIS
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Flutter: directed random browsing of photo collections with a tangible interface
Large collections of photographs are commonplace, and many interfaces for viewing, sorting and organizing them have been proposed. This work describes the design and implementatio...
John Williamson, Lorna M. Brown
WSC
2007
13 years 8 months ago
Visualization of users' activities in a specific environment
Evaluation of user interface design is usually based on usability testing methods. In this paper we analyzed and described the user behavior in the form of the user model. The use...
Zdenek Mikovec, Ivo Malý, Pavel Slaví...
JSSPP
1995
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
A Microeconomic Scheduler for Parallel Computers
We describe a scheduler based on the microeconomic paradigm for scheduling on-line a set of parallel jobs in a multiprocessor system. In addition to increasing the system throughpu...
Ion Stoica, Hussein M. Abdel-Wahab, Alex Pothen
VLDB
2000
ACM
124views Database» more  VLDB 2000»
13 years 9 months ago
Toward Learning Based Web Query Processing
In this paper, we describe a novel Web query processing approach with learning capabilities. Under this approach, user queries are in the form of keywords and search engines are e...
Yanlei Diao, Hongjun Lu, Songting Chen, Zengping T...