Although PDAs typically run applications in a "standalone" mode, they are increasingly equipped with wireless communications, which makes them useful in new domains. Thi...
In this paper, we study query evaluation on Active XML documents (AXML for short), a new generation of XML documents that has recently gained popularity. AXML documents are XML do...
Type-ahead search is a new information-access paradigm, in which systems can find answers to keyword queries “onthe-fly” as a user types in a query. It improves traditional ...
Implicit feedback algorithms utilize interaction between searchers and search systems to learn more about users’ needs and interests than expressed in query statements alone. Th...
An online software agent that helps smokers quit was designed and tested. We created a library of categorized smoking cessation messages using meta-data corresponding to the Stage...