Social annotations on a Web document are highly generalized description of topics contained in that page. Their tagged frequency indicates the user attentions with various degrees...
Junyan Zhu, Can Wang, Xiaofei He, Jiajun Bu, Chun ...
Mobile devices are becoming an inseparable part of our lives and personalized location-based mobile services are gaining more and more popularity. The scope of this paper is to il...
Sighted individuals draw a significant amount of information from signs but this information is denied to the visually impaired. VIDI is an evolving system for detecting and reco...
Piyanuch Silapachote, Allen R. Hanson, Richard S. ...
The experience of a trusted group of colleagues can help users improve the quality and focus of their browsing and searching activities. How could a system provide such help, when...
In this paper, we study query processing in a distributed text database. The novelty is a real distributed architecture implementation that offers concurrent query service. The di...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...