We consider the problem of efficiently sampling Web search engine query results. In turn, using a small random sample instead of the full set of results leads to efficient approxi...
Aris Anagnostopoulos, Andrei Z. Broder, David Carm...
Message hierarchies in web discussion boards grow with new postings. Threads of messages evolve as new postings focus within or diverge from the original themes of the threads. Th...
Recommender systems have emerged in the past several years as an effective way to help people cope with the problem of information overload. One application in which they have bec...
A problem facing many textbook authors (including one of the authors of this paper) is the inevitable delay between new advances in the subject area and their incorporation in a n...
Timothy Miles-Board, Christopher Bailey, Wendy Hal...
The Web poses itself as the largest data repository ever available in the history of humankind. Major efforts have been made in order to provide efficient access to relevant infor...
Davi de Castro Reis, Paulo Braz Golgher, Altigran ...