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IWC
2002
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13 years 10 months ago
Living memory: agent-based information management for connected local communities
We investigate the application of multi-agent systems to develop intelligent information interfaces for connected communities, a class of computer applications aimed at enhancing ...
Kostas Stathis, Oscar de Bruijn, Silvio Macedo
TKDE
1998
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13 years 10 months ago
Data Resource Selection in Distributed Visual Information Systems
With the increasing number of geographical image databases on the Internet, it is a very important issue to know about the most relevant image databases for given user queries, in...
Wendy Chang, Gholamhosein Sheikholeslami, Jia Wang...
ICDIM
2008
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A geo-temporal Web gazetteer integrating data from multiple sources
This paper presents a geo-temporal gazetteer Web service that provides access to names of places and historical periods, together with the associated geotemporal information. With...
Hugo Manguinhas, Bruno Martins, José Luis B...
SIGIR
2012
ACM
12 years 1 months ago
Frontiers, challenges, and opportunities for information retrieval: Report from SWIRL 2012 the second strategic workshop on info
During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 11 months ago
Acquisition of a vernacular gazetteer from web sources
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...