Voting (or rank aggregation) is a general method for aggregating the preferences of multiple agents. One important voting rule is the Slater rule. It selects a ranking of the alte...
In the conventional WWW search or P2P file sharing systems, users search for some information by using the Explicit Information such as keywords, addresses or content names. Howev...
Duplicate and near-duplicate digital image matching is beneficial for image search in terms of collection management, digital content protection, and search efficiency. In this ...
Except for a handful of "mobile" Web sites, the Web is designed for browsing with personal computers with large screens capable of fitting the content of most Web pages....
Although existing work has explored both information extraction and community content creation, most research has focused on them in isolation. In contrast, we see the greatest le...