The maintenance of large raster images under spatial operations is still a major performance bottleneck. For reasons of storage space, images in a collection, such as satellite pi...
In this paper, we report our approach to retrieve patent documents based on the prior art. We use the standard Information Retrieval (IR) techniques which contain indexing and retr...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
This paper is motivated by the problem of how to provide better access to ever enlarging collections of digital images. The paper opens by examining the concept of place in geograp...
We have developed a distributed search engine, Cooperative Search Engine (CSE) to retrieve fresh information. In CSE, a local search engine located in each web server makes an ind...