We motivate the use of desktop assistants in the context of web surfing and show how such a tool may be used to support activities in both cooperative and personal surfing. By coo...
Already in the early 14th century, the philosopher William of Ockham created the philosophical principle known as Ockham’s Razor, which can be translated from Latin as ”entiti...
Background: Expressed sequence tag (EST) analyses provide a rapid and economical means to identify candidate genes that may be involved in a particular biological process. These E...
Mariano Latorre, Herman Silva, Juan Saba, Carito G...
We present iMapping, a zooming based approach for visually organizing information objects. It was developed on top of semantic desktop technologies and especially targets the supp...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to web search personalization based on user collaboration and sharing of information about web documents. The proposed personaliz...