The emergence of personalized homepage services, e.g. personalized Google Homepage and Microsoft Windows Live, has enabled Web users to select Web contents of interest and to aggr...
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QoS (Quality of Service) support in Web services is an important issue since it ensures service usability and utility for each client and, in addition, improves server utilization...
—The recent surge of popularity has established Mashups as an important category of Web 2.0 applications. Mashups are essentially Web services that are often created by end-users...
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Accurate topical categorization of user queries allows for increased effectiveness, efficiency, and revenue potential in general-purpose web search systems. Such categorization be...
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Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute user...