Internet content filtering using isotonic separation on content category ratings

ACM Transactions on Internet Technology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Jacob, Varghese S ^a   Krishnan, Ramayya ^b   Ryu, Young U ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Internet content filtering; Isotonic separation; PICS

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION PROBLEM; INTERNET CONTENT FILTERING; ISOTONIC SEPARATION; PICS;

INFORMATION SYSTEMS; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INTERNET;

EID: 33847717905     PISSN: 15335399     EISSN: 15576051     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1189740.1189741     Document Type: Article

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