We envision participatory texture documentation (PTD) as a process in which a group of users (dedicated individuals and/or general public) with camera-equipped mobile phones parti...
Cyrus Shahabi, Farnoush Banaei Kashani, Houtan Shi...
The advances in wireless communication and decreasing costs of mobile devices have enabled users to access desired information at any time. Coupled with positioning technologies l...
We study in this paper the Web forum crawling problem, which is a very fundamental step in many Web applications, such as search engine and Web data mining. As a typical user-crea...
Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, Lei ...
Current web search engines focus on searching only the most recent snapshot of the web. In some cases, however, it would be desirable to search over collections that include many ...
The debate within the Web community over the optimal means by which to organize information often pits formalized classifications against distributed collaborative tagging systems...