An increasing number of data sources now become available on the Web, but often their contents are only accessible through query interfaces. For a domain of interest, there often ...
Wensheng Wu, Clement T. Yu, AnHai Doan, Weiyi Meng
This paper presents a loosely coupled service-composition paradigm. This paradigm employs a distributed data flow that differs markedly from centralized information flow adopted b...
David Liu, Jun Peng, Kincho H. Law, Gio Wiederhold
Users tend to use the Internet for “resource-hungry” applications (which involve content such as video, audio on-demand and distributed data) and at the same time, more and mo...
George Pallis, Konstantinos Stamos, Athena Vakali,...
Existing Web image search engines index images by textual descriptions including filename, image caption, surrounding text, etc. However, the textual description available on the W...
Eye tracking studies of the Hyperbolic Tree browser [10] suggest that visual search in focus+context displays is highly affected by information scent (i.e., local cues, such as te...
Peter Pirolli, Stuart K. Card, Mija M. Van Der Weg...