Current web search engines return result pages containing mostly text summary even though the matched web pages may contain informative pictures. A text excerpt (i.e. snippet) is ...
If an image should be retrieved by its subregions from a large image database, an immense number of possible queries will appear. Therefore, the index which encodes the spatial in...
The rapid growth of the World Wide Web and the Internet has fueled interest in Web services and the Semantic Web, which are quickly becoming important parts of modern electronic c...
We present a probabilistic model for generating personalised recommendations of items to users of a web service. The Matchbox system makes use of content information in the form o...
We study the problem of maintaining large replicated collections of files or documents in a distributed environment with limited bandwidth. This problem arises in a number of impo...