Peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing accounts for an astonishing volume of current Internet traffic. This paper probes deeply into modern P2P file sharing systems and the forces that...
P. Krishna Gummadi, Richard J. Dunn, Stefan Saroiu...
— The emphasis of emerging mobile and Web 2.0 applications on collaboration and communication increases threats to user privacy. A serious, yet under-researched privacy risk resu...
Sara Motahari, Sotirios G. Ziavras, Mor Naaman, Mo...
Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...
Aggregated search is the task of integrating results from potentially multiple specialized search services, or verticals, into the Web search results. The task requires predicting...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...