— When a P2P system has millions of concurrently active peers, there is the risk that it could serve as a DDoS engine for attacks against a targeted host. In this paper we descri...
Top-k queries based on ranking elements of multidimensional datasets are a fundamental building block for many kinds of information discovery. The best known general-purpose algor...
We study query processing in large graphs that are fundamental data model underpinning various social networks and Web structures. Given a set of query nodes, we aim to find the g...
— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
Previously topic models such as PLSI (Probabilistic Latent Semantic Indexing) and LDA (Latent Dirichlet Allocation) were developed for modeling the contents of plain texts. Recent...