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PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Microsearch: When Search Engines Meet Small Devices
Abstract. In this paper, we present Microsearch, a search system suitable for small devices used in ubiquitous computing environments. Akin to a desktop search engine, Microsearch ...
Chiu Chiang Tan, Bo Sheng, Haodong Wang, Qun Li
ESORICS
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Private Information Retrieval Techniques for Enabling Location Privacy in Location-Based Services
Abstract. The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware handheld devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of locationbased services (LBS) tailored to user l...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SSD
1993
Springer
237views Database» more  SSD 1993»
14 years 1 months ago
A Small Set of Formal Topological Relationships Suitable for End-User Interaction
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
NGC
2000
Springer
101views Communications» more  NGC 2000»
13 years 8 months ago
Information Access in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
ECIR
2008
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu