The primary function of current Web search engines is essentially relevance ranking at the document level. However, myriad structured information about real-world objects is embed...
Zaiqing Nie, Yunxiao Ma, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen,...
Given a set of machines and a set of Web applications with dynamically changing demands, an online application placement controller decides how many instances to run for each appl...
Chunqiang Tang, Malgorzata Steinder, Mike Spreitze...
This research examines the privacy comfort levels of participants if others can view traces of their web browsing activity. During a week-long field study, participants used an el...
Contextual search refers to proactively capturing the information need of a user by automatically augmenting the user query with information extracted from the search context; for...
We consider the problem of indexing high-dimensional data for answering (approximate) similarity-search queries. Similarity indexes prove to be important in a wide variety of sett...