Community Web Portals (e.g., digital libraries, vertical aggregators, infomediaries) have become quite popular nowadays in supporting specific communities of interest on corporate...
Document-centric XML collections contain text-rich documents, marked up with XML tags. The tags add lightweight semantics to the text. Querying such collections calls for a hybrid...
We present a study of the degree to which annotations overlap when several researchers read the same set of scientific articles. Our objective is to determine whether there is suf...
This work proposes a model for video retrieval based upon the inference network model. The document network is constructed using video metadata encoded using MPEG-7 and captures i...
Group communication has become an important component in wireless networks. In this paper, we focus on the environments in which multiple groups coexist in the system, and both in...