Information retrieval or search plays an important role in a wide range of information management and electronic commerce tasks. In spite of the importance of information retrieva...
Nicholas J. Belkin, Susan T. Dumais, Jean Scholtz,...
One of the challenges in delivering e-government services is to design the Web sites to make it easier for citizens to find desired information. However, little work is found to e...
Retiming and recycling are two transformations used to optimize the performance of latency-insensitive (a.k.a. synchronous elastic) systems. This paper presents an approach that c...
Dmitry Bufistov, Jordi Cortadella, Marc Galceran O...
Tag clouds are typically presented so that users can actively utilize community-generated metadata to query a collection. This research investigates whether such keyword clouds, a...
At current on-line shops, buyers almost independently enjoy shopping without anyone's help. However, there are many cases where they cooperate with people such as personal ad...