Understanding goals and preferences behind a user's online activities can greatly help information providers, such as search engine and E-Commerce web sites, to personalize c...
Honghua (Kathy) Dai, Lingzhi Zhao, Zaiqing Nie, Ji...
Market engineering is making markets work. Markets are information processing and information producing information systems which mediate allocation of resources within or between...
Resource management is a precondition to build reliable, extensible middleware and to host potentially untrusted user components. Resource accounting allows to charge users for the...
This study introduces methods for evaluating search engine performance over a time period. Several measures are defined, which as a whole, describe search engine functionality ove...
In this short paper we introduce Helios, a flexible and efficient open source meta-search engine. Helios currently runs on the top of 16 search engines (in Web, Books, News, and A...