ImageCLEF’s Wikipedia Image Retrieval task provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of multimedia and multilingual information retrieval from a collection of Wikiped...
Location-aware mobile users need to access, query, and visualize, geographic information in a wide variety of applications including tourism, navigation, environmental management,...
Suresh K. Lodha, Nikolai M. Faaland, Grant Wong, A...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
With the recent advances in communications technologies and decentralization of work practices, there has been an increase in distributed, remote, computerized work environments. I...
In this paper a model for scheduling in wide-area systems is described. The model is federated and utilizes a collection of local site schedulers that control the use of their res...