We are witnessing in recent years growing interest for location-dependent information services among mobile users. This paper examines the issue of processing locationdependent qu...
Jianliang Xu, Baihua Zheng, Wang-Chien Lee, Dik Lu...
The larger amount of information on the Web is stored in document databases and is not indexed by general-purpose search engines (i.e., Google and Yahoo). Such information is dyna...
Yih-Ling Hedley, Muhammad Younas, Anne E. James, M...
Abstract. There is a significant commercial and research interest in locationbased web search engines. Given a number of search keywords and one or more locations that a user is in...
We motivate the use of desktop assistants in the context of web surfing and show how such a tool may be used to support activities in both cooperative and personal surfing. By coo...
: AWAIT: Efficient Overload Management for Busy Multi-tier Web Services under Bursty Workloads Lei Lu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vittoria de Nitto Persone, Ningfang Mi, Evgenia Smirn...
Lei Lu, Ludmila Cherkasova, Vittoria de Nitto Pers...