The small screen size of handheld mobile devices poses an inherent problem in visualizing data: very often it is too difficult and unpleasant to navigate through the plethora of p...
Dongsong Zhang, George Karabatis, Zhiyuan Chen, Bo...
Mobile devices equipped with positioning capabilities (e.g., GPS) can ask location-dependent queries to Location Based Services (LBS). To protect privacy, the user location must n...
Gabriel Ghinita, Panos Kalnis, Ali Khoshgozaran, C...
When search results against digital libraries and web resources have limited metadata, augmenting them with meaningful and stable category information can enable better overviews ...
—Web-scale image search engines (e.g. Google Image Search, Bing Image Search) mostly rely on surrounding text features. It is difficult for them to interpret users’ search int...
Xiaoou Tang, Ke Liu, Jingyu Cui, Fang Wen, Xiaogan...
Keyword-based search returns its results without concern for the information needs of users at a particular time. In general, search queries are too short to represent what users ...