Current search engines rely on centralized page ranking algorithms which compute page rank values as single (global) values for each Web page. Recent work on topic-sensitive PageRa...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Daniel Olmedilla, Wolfgang...
This position paper argues that the mobile agents paradigm is a useful and important technology enabling pervasive and ubiquitous computing. Context awareness drives adaptability ...
Basically, instrumental conditioning is learning through consequences: Behavior that produces positive results (high “instrumental response”) is reinforced, and that which pro...
This paper addresses several aspects related to the distribution of content. The first aim is to provide an overview of the Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) concept. The primary...
Following the tradition of these acceptance talks, I will be giving my thoughts on where our field is going. Any discussion of the future of information retrieval (IR) research, h...