The rate of speciation is in most mammals an order of magnitude faster than in most other vertebrates. It is faster still in the social mammals. The apparent association between c...
Many data-driven social and Web applications involve collaboration and coordination. The vision of declarative data-driven coordination (D3C), proposed in [9], is to support coord...
While search engines are the major sources of content discovery on online content providers and e-commerce sites, their capability is limited since textual descriptions cannot ful...
Many people manage a complex assortment of digital information in their lives. Volunteer coordinators at nonprofit organizations are no exception; they collectively manage informa...
Cloud services accessed through mobile devices suffer from high network access latencies and are constrained by energy budgets dictated by the devices’ batteries. Radio and batt...
One cannot deny that space and time are important to us. We perceive our world with respect to where and when we do things. We advocate geoblogging as a tool to capture such exper...
We consider the problem of entity tagging: given one or more named entities from a specific domain, the goal is to automatically associate descriptive phrases, referred to as eta...
Kaushik Chakrabarti, Surajit Chaudhuri, Tao Cheng,...
In this demo we present BibSonomy, a social bookmark and publication sharing system. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.4 [Information Systems Applications]: Miscellaneous; H.3....
Dominik Benz, Folke Eisterlehner, Andreas Hotho, R...
We introduce an experimental search engine for multilingual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Moda...
Konstantinos Zagoris, Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Ch...
We describe PhotoCompas, a system that utilizes the time and location information embedded in digital photographs to automatically organize a personal photo collection. PhotoCompa...
Mor Naaman, Yee Jiun Song, Andreas Paepcke, Hector...