In this paper, we define and study a novel search problem: Comparative Web Search (CWS). The task of CWS is to seek relevant and comparative information from the Web to help users...
The current boom of the Web is associated with the revenues originated from on-line advertising. While search-based advertising is dominant, the association of ads with a Web page...
Berthier A. Ribeiro-Neto, Marco Cristo, Paulo Braz...
Orc is a kernel language for structured concurrent programming. Orc provides three powerful combinators that define the structure of a concurrent computation. These combinators su...
Ian Wehrman, David Kitchin, William R. Cook, Jayad...
This paper addresses the design and development of MediaPick [1], an interactive multi-touch system for semantic search of multimedia contents. Our solution provides an intuitive,...
Gianpaolo D'Amico, Andrea Ferracani, Lea Landucci,...
The development of the World Wide Web has changed the way we think about information. Information on the web is distributed, updates are made asynchronously and resources come onli...