Recommender systems improve access to relevant products and information by making personalized suggestions based on previous examples of a user's likes and dislikes. Most exi...
Recently, various crowdsourcing initiatives showed that targeted efforts of user communities result in massive amounts of tags. For example, the Netherlands Institute for Sound a...
Riste Gligorov, Michiel Hildebrand, Jacco van Osse...
Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) presents several challenges and has been subject to extensive research from many domains, such as image processing or database systems. Databa...
Ricardo da Silva Torres, Celmar G. Silva, Claudia ...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Users of text search engines are increasingly wary that their activities may disclose confidential information about their business or personal profiles. It would be desirable f...