User Modeling is the core component for the majority of personalization services. It has become an important factor in the effort to personalise a diversity of web resources accor...
Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content [7], but a U...
The great amount of information that a user handles in their typical transactions on the Internet –identifiers, addresses, credit card numbers, among others-, makes it necessary...
We describe the Paraflow system for connecting heterogeneous computing services together into a flexible and efficient data-mining metacomputer. There are three levels of parallel...
World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...