The desktop metaphor aimed to create a working environment, which would resemble that of the user's desk. With information abundance this desktop is often cluttered with file...
George Lepouras, Aggelos Papatriantafyllou, Akrivi...
Studies find that at least 20% of web queries have local intent; and the fraction of queries with local intent that originate from mobile properties may be twice as high. The eme...
Petros Venetis, Hector Gonzalez, Christian S. Jens...
Web searching is a significant activity for many people seeking multimedia information. Major Web search engines, such as Alta Vista, are essential tools in the quest to locate re...
The emergence of personalized homepage services, e.g. personalized Google Homepage and Microsoft Windows Live, has enabled Web users to select Web contents of interest and to aggr...
Jie Han, Dingyi Han, Chenxi Lin, Hua-Jun Zeng, Zhe...
Personalization actions that tailor the Web experience to a particular user are an integral component of recommender systems. Here, product knowledge - either hand-coded or “mine...