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QI
2009
Springer
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Structured Information Retrieval and Quantum Theory
Information Retrieval (IR) systems try to identify documents relevant to user queries, which are representations of user information needs. Interaction, context, and document struc...
Benjamin Piwowarski, Mounia Lalmas
ISVC
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
LightShop: An Interactive Lighting System Incorporating the 2D Image Editing Paradigm
Lighting is a fundamental and important process in the 3D animation pipeline. Conventional lighting workflow is time-consuming and labor-intensive. A user must fiddle with a rang...
Younghui Kim, Junyong Noh
INTETAIN
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Stay Tuned! An Automatic RSS Feeds Trans-coder
News aggregators are widely used to read RSS feeds but they require the user to be in front of a screen. While moving, people usually do not have any display, or very small ones. M...
Patrick Salamin, Alexandre Wetzel, Daniel Thalmann...
ICTIR
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Modeling Expected Utility of Multi-session Information Distillation
Abstract. An open challenge in information distillation is the evaluation and optimization of the utility of ranked lists with respect to flexible user interactions over multiple ...
Yiming Yang, Abhimanyu Lad
ICMI
2009
Springer
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Detecting, tracking and interacting with people in a public space
We have built a system that engages naive users in an audiovisual interaction with a computer in an unconstrained public space. We combine audio source localization techniques wit...
Sunsern Cheamanunkul, Evan Ettinger, Matt Jacobsen...
WEBI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
In the Mood to Click? Towards Inferring Receptiveness to Search Advertising
Abstract—We present a method for modeling, and automatically inferring, the current interest of a user in search advertising. Our task is complementary to that of predicting ad r...
Qi Guo, Eugene Agichtein, Charles L. A. Clarke, Az...
AUSAI
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Probabilistic Seeking Prediction in P2P VoD Systems
In P2P VoD streaming systems, user behavior modeling is critical to help optimise user experience as well as system throughput. However, it still remains a challenging task due to ...
Weiwei Wang, Tianyin Xu, Yang Gao, Sanglu Lu
ICC
2009
IEEE
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Completion Time Minimization and Robust Power Control in Wireless Packet Networks
A wireless packet network is considered in which each user transmits a stream of packets to its destination. The transmit power of each user interferes with the transmission of al...
Chris T. K. Ng, Muriel Médard, Asuman E. Oz...
ESORICS
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Towards a Privacy-Preserving National Identity Card
In this paper, we propose to replace the national identity card, currently used in many countries, by a personal device that allows its user to prove some binary statements about h...
Yves Deswarte, Sébastien Gambs
ENTER
2009
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Personalized Mobile City Transport Advisory System
Mobile devices are becoming an inseparable part of our lives and personalized location-based mobile services are gaining more and more popularity. The scope of this paper is to il...
Gytis Tumas, Francesco Ricci