Publications related to Web analytics

CookieGraph: Understanding and Detecting First-Party Tracking Cookies

Carmela González Troncoso, Sandra Deepthy Siby

As third-party cookie blocking is becoming the norm in mainstream web browsers, advertisers and trackers have started to use first-party cookies for tracking. To understand this phenomenon, we conduct a differential measurement study with versus without th ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

Privacy in Recommender Systems

Mahsa Taziki

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. Recommenders are machine learning approach and are becoming one of the main ways to navigate the Internet. They recommend appropria ...

EPFL2018

Enhancing Social Media Platforms for Educational and Humanitarian Knowledge Sharing : Analytics, Privacy, Discovery, and Delivery Aspects

Andrii Vozniuk

Social media (SM) platforms have demonstrated their ability to facilitate knowledge sharing on the global scale. They are increasingly often employed in educational and humanitarian domains where, despite their general benefits, they expose challenges pecu ...

EPFL2017

Capturing the Moment: Lightweight Similarity Computations

Rachid Guerraoui, Rhicheek Patra, Georgios Damaskinos

Similarity computations are crucial in various web activities like advertisements, search or trust-distrust predictions. These similarities often vary with time as product perception and popularity constantly change with users' evolving inclination. The hu ...

IEEE2017

Efficient Online Processing for Advanced Analytics

Mohamed Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed El Seidy

With the advent of emerging technologies and the Internet of Things, the importance of online data analytics has become more pronounced. Businesses and companies are adopting approaches that provide responsive analytics to stay competitive in the global ma ...

EPFL2017

Combining Content Analytics and Activity Tracking to Identify User Interests and Enable Knowledge Discovery

Denis Gillet, Maria Jesus Rodriguez Triana, Adrian Christian Holzer, Andrii Vozniuk

Finding relevant content is one of the core activities of users interacting with a content repository, be it knowledge workers using an organizational knowledge management system at a workplace or self-regulated learners collaborating in a learning environ ...

2016

Squall: Scalable Real-time Analytics

Christoph Koch, Ioannis Klonatos, Aleksandar Vitorovic, Mohammad Dashti Rahmat Abadi, Mohamed Elsayed Mohamed Ahmed El Seidy, Daniel Espino Timón, Minh Khue Vu, Khayyam Mubariz Oglu Guliyev

Squall is a scalable online query engine that runs complex analytics in a cluster using skew-resilient, adaptive operators. Squall builds on state-of-the-art partitioning schemes and local algorithms, including some of our own. This paper presents the over ...

VLDB Endowment Inc.2016

Squall: Scalable Real-time Analytics using Efficient, Skew-resilient Join Operators

Aleksandar Vitorovic

Squall is a scalable online query engine that runs complex analytics in a cluster using skew-resilient, adaptive operators. Online processing implies that results are incrementally built as the input arrives, and it is ubiquitous for many applications such ...

EPFL2023

D2P: Distance-Based Differential Privacy in Recommenders

Rachid Guerraoui, Anne-Marie Kermarrec, Mahsa Taziki, Rhicheek Patra

The upsurge in the number of web users over the last two decades has resulted in a significant growth of online information. This information growth calls for recommenders that personalize the in- formation proposed to each individual user. Nevertheless, p ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Towards a highly effective and robust Web credibility evaluation system

Karl Aberer, Xin Liu

By leveraging crowdsourcing, Web credibility evaluation systems (WCESs) have become a promising tool to assess the credibility of Web content, e.g., Web pages. However, existing systems adopt a passive Way to collect users' credibility ratings, which incur ...

Elsevier Science Bv2015

Studying Web Content Credibility by Social Simulation

Karl Aberer

The Internet has become an important source of information that significantly affects social, economical and political life. The content available in the Web is the basis for the operation of the digital economy. Moreover, Web content has become essential ...

University of Surrey, Department of Sociology2014

Scaling up analytical queries with column-stores

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Alagiannis, Manoussos Gavriil Athanassoulis

As data analytics is used by an increasing number of applications, data analytics engines are required to execute workloads with increased concurrency, i.e., an increasing number of clients submitting queries. Data management systems designed for data anal ...

2013

Quality-aware similarity assessment for entity matching in Web data

Karl Aberer, Zoltán Miklós, Surender Reddy Yerva

One of the key challenges to realize automated processing of the information on the Web, which is the central goal of the Semantic Web, is related to the entity matching problem. There are a number of tools that reliably recognize named entities, such as p ...

Wiley-Blackwell2012

A Decentralized Recommender System for Effective Web Credibility Assessment

Karl Aberer, Alexandra Olteanu, Jean-Eudes Marie Ranvier

An overwhelming and growing amount of data is available online. The problem of untrustworthy online information is augmented by its high economic potential and its dynamic nature, e.g. transient domain names, dynamic content, etc. In this paper, we address ...

2012

Online chemical modeling environment (OCHEM): web platform for data storage, model development and publishing of chemical information

Luc Patiny

The Online Chemical Modeling Environment is a web-based platform that aims to automate and simplify the typical steps required for QSAR modeling. The platform consists of two major subsystems: the database of experimental measurements and the modeling fram ...

2011

Purely URL-based Topic Classification

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan, Ludmila Marian

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its topic? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Usually, web pages are classified using their content, but a URL-only classifier is preferable, (i) when speed is crucial, (ii) to enable conte ...

2009

Towards Privacy-Friendly Online Advertising

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Julien Freudiger, Nevena Vratonjic

Modern web sites commonly interact with third-party domains to integrate advertisements and generate revenue from them. To improve the relevance of advertisement, online advertisers track user activities online with third- party cookies. However, excessive ...

2009

Web page language identification based on URLs

Monika Henzinger, Ingmar Weber, Eda Baykan

Given only the URL of a web page, can we identify its language? This is the question that we examine in this paper. Such a language classifier is, for example, useful for crawlers of web search engines, which frequently try to satisfy certain language quot ...

2008

Search Technologies for the Internet

Monika Henzinger

About 20% of the world's population uses the web, and a large majority thereof uses web search engines to find information. As a result many web researchers are devoting much effort to improving the speed and capabilitiy of search technology. ...

American Association for the Advancement of Science2007