The quality of the search experience has been an enduring problem for the World Wide Web. One of the well-known difficulties is the tendency of users to use short, under-specified...
Ahu Sieg, Bamshad Mobasher, Steven L. Lytinen, Rob...
First Come First Served is a policy that is accepted for implementing fairness in a number of application domains such as scheduling in Operating Systems [28, 11], scheduling web ...
Abstract-Wikipedia is an example of the collaborative, semi-structured data sets emerging on the Web. These data sets have large, nonuniform schema that require costly data integra...
Bryan Chan, Leslie Wu, Justin Talbot, Mike Cammara...
We present a new probabilistic framework for finding likely variable assignments in difficult constraint satisfaction problems. Finding such assignments is key to efficient sea...
Eric I. Hsu, Matthew Kitching, Fahiem Bacchus, She...
In this paper, we investigate the difference between Wikipedia and Web link structure with respect to their value as indicators of the relevance of a page for a given topic of re...