The amount of data produced by ubiquitous computing applications is quickly growing, due to the pervasive presence of small devices endowed with sensing, computing and communicatio...
Annalisa Appice, Michelangelo Ceci, Antonio Turi, ...
As the importance and the value of exchanged data over the Internet or other media types are increasing, the search for the best solution to offer the necessary protection against...
Diaa Salama Abdul Minaam, Hatem M. Abdual-Kader, M...
Our objective is to improve the performance of keyword based image search engines by re-ranking their baseline results. To this end, we address three limitations of existing searc...
Most queries in web search are ambiguous and multifaceted. Identifying the major senses and facets of queries from search log data, referred to as query subtopic mining in this pa...
Yunhua Hu, Ya-nan Qian, Hang Li, Daxin Jiang, Jian...
Combating Web spam is one of the greatest challenges for Web search engines. State-of-the-art anti-spam techniques focus mainly on detecting varieties of spam strategies, such as ...
Chao Wei, Yiqun Liu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyun...