Abstract. A growing amounts of information are currently being generated and stored in the World Wide Web (WWW), in particular, researchers in any field can find a lot of publicati...
We propose a new method to measure “visualness” of concepts, that is, what extent concepts have visual characteristics. To know which concept has visually discriminative power...
Recent advances in processing and networking capabilities of computers have led to an accumulation of immense amounts of multimedia data such as images. One of the largest reposit...
In this paper we investigate how people use online rating information to inform decision making. We examine whether a theory of searching for information to discriminate between a...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...