As information becomes available in increasing amounts to a wide spectrum of users, the need for a shift towards a more user-centered information access paradigm arises. We develo...
Web-based information systems provide to their users the ability to interleave querying and browsing during their information discovery efforts. The MIX system provides an API cal...
Recent progress in ubiquitous computing technology is allowing development of new and sophisticated applications that are now able to store very large data on the mobile device it...
Cristiano Silveira, Leonardo Eloy, Jose Maria Mont...
In an information retrieval system, a thesaurus can be used for query expansion, i.e. adding words to queries in order to improve recall. We propose a semi-automatic and interactiv...
In order to ease the development and maintenance of more complex P2P applications, which combine multiple P2P functionality (e.g. streaming and dependable storage), we suggest to ...
Kalman Graffi, Aleksandra Kovacevic, Song Xiao, Ra...