Abstract. Location-based services (LBS) are receiving increasing popularity as they provide convenience to mobile users with on-demand information. The use of these services, howev...
One vision of a context-aware pervasive networking environment promises the user a seamless access to surrounding services using her personal mobile device. This requires that the...
Users of social networking services can connect with each other by forming communities for online interaction. Yet as the number of communities hosted by such websites grows over ...
Recommender systems provide users with personalized suggestions for products or services. These systems often rely on Collaborating Filtering (CF), where past transactions are ana...
Understanding the intent behind a user's query can help search engine to automatically route the query to some corresponding vertical search engines to obtain particularly re...
Jian Hu, Gang Wang, Frederick H. Lochovsky, Jian-T...