Smart environments (e.g., airports, hospitals, stadiums, and other physical spaces using ubiquitous computing to empower many mobile people) provide novel challenges for usability...
In this paper we examine user queries with respect to diversity: providing a mix of results across different interpretations. Using two query log analysis techniques (click entrop...
Paul Clough, Mark Sanderson, Murad Abouammoh, Serg...
In this paper we introduce POLAR, a probabilistic objectoriented logical framework for annotation-based information retrieval. In POLAR, the knowledge about digital objects, annot...
Min-max functions are dynamic programming operators of zero-sum deterministic games with finite state and action spaces. The problem of computing the linear growth rate of the or...
Although digital images indexing and querying techniques have extensively been studied for the last years, few systems are dedicated to medical images today while the need for con...
Tristan Glatard, Johan Montagnat, Isabelle E. Magn...