The size of the Web as well as user bases of search systems continue to grow exponentially. Consequently, providing subsecond query response times and high query throughput become...
Roi Blanco, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Claudio Lucc...
The definition of “boundary” in the context of multiorganizational information sharing and integration initiatives is developed in the paper. Both current literature and a cas...
Lei Zheng, Tung-Mou Yang, Theresa A. Pardo, Yuanfu...
The research we are reporting here is part of our effort to develop a navigation system for the blind. Our long-term goal is to create a portable, self-contained system that will ...
Jack M. Loomis, Reginald G. Golledge, Roberta L. K...
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
After being a pilot track in 2005, GeoCLEF advanced to be a regular track within CLEF 2006. The purpose of GeoCLEF is to test and evaluate cross-language geographic information ret...
Fredric C. Gey, Ray R. Larson, Mark Sanderson, Ker...