Virtual environments (VEs) very often contain buildings that have to be navigated by users. In the literature, several navigation aids based on maps have been proposed for VEs, bu...
This paper examines the Human Computer Interaction issue of learnability of interactive coordinated-view visualizations. We take the case of DataMaps, a Census data visualization ...
A resource directory is a critical component of a Grid architecture. P2P computing paradigm could address some of the scalability issues that make distributed resource discovery s...
Capturing knowledge from free-form evaluative texts about an entity is a challenging task. New techniques of feature extraction, polarity determination and strength evaluation hav...
Location-based services like reminders, electronic graffiti, and tourist guides normally require a custom, location-sensitive database that must be custom-tailored for the applicat...