A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Although mobile services can be used ubiquitously, their employment and the interaction with them are still restricted by the constraints of mobile devices. In order to facilitate...
Gregor Broll, Sven Siorpaes, Enrico Rukzio, Massim...
Searching the internet using the currently available searchengines is not satisfactory. Thetechniquesused there focus on the extraction of relevant informationdirectlyfrom the doc...
Finding relevant files in a personal file system continues to be a challenge. It is still easier to find stuff on the Web with its exponential growth than in one’s personal ...
As personal assistant software matures and assumes more autonomous control of its users’ activities, it becomes more critical that this software can explain its task processing....
Deborah L. McGuinness, Alyssa Glass, Michael Wolve...