The recent proliferation of crowd computing initiatives on the web calls for smarter methodologies and tools to annotate, query and explore repositories. There is the need for scal...
Roberto Mirizzi, Azzurra Ragone, Tommaso Di Noia, ...
Abstract. Multimedia presentations and their applications are becoming more and more popular in most spheres of industry and everyday life. A database approach could help in queryi...
Zhiyong Huang, Binjia Jiao, B. Prabhakaran, Conrad...
FOCUS, the Feature-Oriented Catalog USer interface, is an interactive table viewer for a common kind of table, namely the object-attribute table, also called cases-by-attribute ta...
Main stream approaches in distributed artificial intelligence (DAI) are essentially logic-based. Little has been reported to explore probabilistic approach in DAI. On the other han...
Ranking search results is a fundamental problem in information retrieval. In this paper we explore whether the use of proximity and phrase information can improve web retrieval ac...