Abstract. As the number of devices connected to the internet continues to grow rapidly and software systems are being increasingly deployed on the web, security and privacy have be...
The technical and competence requirements for writing content on the web is still one of the major factors that widens the gap between authors and readers. Although tools that sup...
While classic information retrieval methods return whole documents as a result of a query, many information demands would be better satisfied by fine-grain access inside the docu...
Never before have so many information sources been available. Most are accessible on-line and some exist on the Internet alone. However, this large information quantity makes inte...
With the advances in digital imagery, large accessible data storage, internet repositories, and image applications, information conveyed through images is gaining in importance. T...