Previous work on understanding user web search behavior has focused on how people search and what they are searching for, but not why they are searching. In this paper, we describ...
Embodied conversational agents become more and more realistic concerning their conversational and their nonverbal behaviors. But if the information conveyed nonverbally exhibits c...
There exists a growing class of distributed applications that require adaptive middleware services, i.e., services that are able to monitor changes in the execution environment an...
There has been an increased demand for characterizing user access patterns using web mining techniques since the informative knowledge extracted from web server log files can not ...
The Semantic Web promises to open innumerable opportunities for automation and information retrieval by standardizing the protocols for metadata exchange. However, just as the succ...