The World-Wide Web is developing very fast. Currently, nding useful information on the Web is a time consuming process. In this paper, we present WebMate, an agent that helps user...
Biodiversity databases have recently become widely available to the public and to other researchers. To retrieve information from these resources, users must understand the underl...
Bongshin Lee, Cynthia Sims Parr, Dana Campbell, Be...
Many modern database applications require content-based similarity search capability in numeric attribute space. Further, users' notion of similarity varies between search se...
Currently, there are many hypertext-like tools and database retrieval systems that use keyword search as a means of navigation. While useful for certain tasks, keyword search is i...
Mei C. Chuah, Steven F. Roth, John Kolojejchick, J...
The advent of the Web has brought an unprecedented amount of information together with a large, diverse set of users. Online users are performing a wider variety of tasks than eve...