An ever-increasing amount of information on the Web today is available only through search interfaces: the users have to type in a set of keywords in a search form in order to access the pages from certain Web sites. These pages are often referred to as the Hidden Web or the Deep Web. Since there are no static links to the Hidden Web pages, search engines cannot discover and index such pages an...

This paper explains the results of a user study on 131 participants in Finland. The study measured how feedback information influences customers’ decision making, and what impact individual feedback elements have. The study was conducted using a research prototype that simulates a real world widget sharing website. Our results indicate that customer reviews are the most important feedback eleme...

As competitions get more popular, transferring ever-larger data sets becomes infeasible and costly. For example, downloading the 157.3 GB 2012 ImageNet data set incurs about $4.33 in bandwidth costs per download. Downloading the full ImageNet data set takes 33 days. ImageNet has since become popular beyond the competition, and many papers and models now revolve around this data set. For sharing...

In recent years, with the rapid growth of the Internet, the situation of Internet music piracy has become increasingly serious. In particular, the exchange mode of music downloading as a form of peer-to-peer electronic commerce is gaining fast acceptance in the user community. However, the exchange mode of music downloading is also particularly prone to being misused for music piracy. It is the...

  Objective: Different educational tools are now commonly used in universities worldwide such as illustrations, audio and videotapes, etc. This study aimed to compare the efficacy of educational film and clinical demonstration for instruction of Fiber-Reinforced Composite (FRC) post restorations to dental students in Department of Restorative Dentistry.   Methods: This interventional study was ...