Handheld computing devices are becoming highly connected devices with high capacity storage. This has resulted in their being able to support storage of, and access to, personal p...
Cathal Gurrin, Gareth J. F. Jones, Hyowon Lee, Nei...
The migration from desktop applications to Web-based services is scattering personal data across a myriad of Web sites, such as Google, Flickr, YouTube, and Amazon S3. This disper...
Roxana Geambasu, Cherie Cheung, Alexander Moshchuk...
Searchius is a collaborative search engine that produces search results based solely on user provided web-related data. We discuss the architecture of this system and how it compa...
Web archives are useful resources to find out about the temporal evolution of persons, organizations, products, or other topics. However, even when advanced text search functional...
Vinay Setty, Srikanta J. Bedathur, Klaus Berberich...
Personal gazetteers record individuals' most important places, such as home, work, grocery store, etc. Using personal gazetteers in location-aware applications offers additio...
Changqing Zhou, Dan Frankowski, Pamela J. Ludford,...