Current systems often create socially awkward interruptions or unduly demand attention because they have no way of knowing if a person is busy and should not be interrupted. Previ...
Mobile users of computation and communication services have been rapidly adopting battery-powered mobile handhelds, such as PocketPCs and SmartPhones, for their work. However, the...
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...
With the rise of cloud computing, it is increasingly attractive for end-users (organizations and individuals) to outsource the management of their data to a small number of larges...
Daniel Fabbri, Arnab Nandi, Kristen LeFevre, H. V....
Event search is the problem of identifying events or activity of interest in a large database storing long sequences of activity. In this paper, our topic is the problem of identi...
Panagiotis Papapetrou, Paul Doliotis, Vassilis Ath...