Polytechnic Institute of Mons (Belgium)
Collaboration with the Computer Science Department:
optimizing reversible and non reversible logfile compression
algorithms, to achieve compression factors higher than 20. Popular algorithms have a compression factor of 10.
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University of Cambridge (England)
Collaboration with the Statistical Laboratory:
estimating the reach and frequency distribution for online advertisers,
when the distribution
of pages
per user per month can not be accurately computed accurately. Purpose: optimizing the
return on investment.
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Hugen Enterprises (Australia)
Hugen Enterprises develops business Internet applications for government, public and private
companies. Also uses web robot technology (data feeds) to automatically
download sport wagering prices across multiple websites, import the data
into an Oracle database, and present regularly updated price comparisons at
www.SportsAssault.com.
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FindWhat.com
Project: detection of malicious webrobot activity on their pay-per-click search engine,
using invisible keyword links ("decoy links"). Purpose: minimizing
illegitimate charges (resulting from unqualified traffic) to
advertisers.
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