Combating waste

Information Waste on the World Wide Web: combating the clutter

The internet has become a critical part of the infrastructure supporting modern life. The internet’s key success factor, the vast amount of web-accessible information, hinges on a high degree of openness and autonomy of information providers. However, this makes the web vulnerable to inaccurate, misleading, or outdated information. Now there is more information than ever, this unnecessary and u...

Information Waste on the World Wide Web and Combating the Clutter

The Internet has become a critical part of the infrastructure supporting modern life. The high degree of openness and autonomy of information providers determines the access to a vast amount of information on the Internet. However, this makes the web vulnerable to inaccurate, misleading, or outdated information. The unnecessary and unusable content, which is referred to as " information waste, ...

Combating Control Flow Linearization

Piracy is a persistent headache for software companies that try to protect their assets by investing both time and money. Program code obfuscation as a sub-field of software protection is a mechanism widely used toward this direction. However, effectively protecting a program against reverse-engineering and tampering turned out to be a highly non-trivial task that still is subject to ongoing re...

Combating Social Bookmarking Pollution

Social Bookmarking (SBM) is one of the most widely used Web services. An SBM website displays and shares each user’s bookmarks. The SBM service aggregates the number of users who bookmark a given Web page and provides useful information as a result of these aggregations. However, an increase in the popularity of the SBM service and in the number of the users of the SBM service results in an inc...

Combating Metric Conventionalism