The constant increase of malware threats clearly shows that the present countermeasures are not sufficient especially because most actions are put in place only when infections hav...
The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is dened a...
It is crucial to study basic principles that support adaptive and scalable retrieval functions in large networked environments such as the Web, where information is distributed am...
In a traditional information retrieval system, it is assumed that queries can be posed about any topic. In reality, a large fraction of web queries are posed about a relatively sm...
It is common for hotspots in airports, cafes, and malls to deploy info-stations on their access points to provide local information such as flight schedule, multimedia access, sal...