As the scale and scope of distributed and multi-agent systems grow, it becomes increasingly important to design and manage the participants' interactions. The potential for b...
P2P systems are increasingly used to discover and share various data between users. The performance of a P2P based information retrieval system is determined by the efficiency of...
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document “snippets” returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document cluste...
This paper describes the results of a Wizard of Oz study of people's search behavior using BuddySystem, a proximitysensing system designed to help end-users locate people, pl...
Leila Takayama, Lawrence Leung, Xiaodong Jiang, Ja...
In this paper, we propose a new image-based algorithm to identify where a tourist is when visiting unfamiliar places. When the tourist takes a photo of an unfamiliar place, our alg...