In search engines, ranking algorithms measure the importance and relevance of documents mainly based on the contents and relationships between documents. User attributes are usual...
— One primary goal in rescue robotics is to deploy a team of robots for coordinated victim search after a disaster. This requires robots to perform subtasks, such as victim detec...
Etter Solutions Research Group participated in the TRECVID conference for the first time in 2007. We submitted five runs in the area of fully automatic search. Fully Automatic Sea...
Searchers can have problems devising queries that accurately express their, often dynamic, information needs. In this paper we describe an adaptive approach that uses unobtrusive ...
Personalized information agents can help overcome some of the limitations of communal Web information sources such as portals and search engines. Two important components of these...