Abstract. The Web provides us with a vast resource for business intelligence. However, the large size of the Web and its dynamic nature make the task of foraging appropriate inform...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...
Like search engines, recommender systems have become a tool that cannot be ignored by websites with a large selection of products, music, news or simply webpages links. The perform...
The PageRank algorithm is used by search engines such as Google to order web pages. It uses an iterative numerical method to compute the maximal eigenvector of a transition matrix ...
Jeremy T. Bradley, Douglas V. de Jager, William J....
This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a s...