We study principled methods for incorporating user utility into the selection of sponsored search ads. We describe variations of the GSP allocation/pricing mechanism that accommod...
The increasing popularity of Web Services (WS) has exemplified the need for scalable and robust discovery mechanisms. Although decentralized solutions for discovering WS promise ...
George Anadiotis, Spyros Kotoulas, Holger Lausen, ...
In this paper, we propose a simple framework to characterize the switching behavior between search engines based on click streams. We segment users into a number of categories bas...
We study several transparent techniques for scaling dynamic content web sites, and we evaluate their relative impact when used in combination. Full transparency implies strong dat...
When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...