Finding information about people on the Web using a search engine is difficult because there is a many-to-many mapping between person names and specific persons (i.e. referents). ...
The situation in engineering security for Web services that access databases is as follows: On the one hand, specifications like WSSecurity are concerned with the security managem...
Martin Wimmer, Daniela Eberhardt, Pia Ehrnlechner,...
In this paper a region-based color image indexing and retrieval algorithm is presented. As a basis for the indexing, a novel K-Means segmentation algorithm is used, modified so as...
Ioannis Kompatsiaris, Evagelia Triantafillou, Mich...
Performance evaluation is an important issue in Web search engine researches. Traditional evaluation methods rely on much human efforts and are therefore quite time-consuming. Wit...
Yiqun Liu, Yupeng Fu, Min Zhang, Shaoping Ma, Liyu...
Current search technologies work in "one size fits all" fashion. Therefore, the answer to a query is independent of specific user information need. In this paper, we des...