: Everyone realizes how powerful the few big Web search engine companies have become, both in terms of financial resources due to soaring stock quotes and in terms of the still hid...
Shopping on the Internet has become a convenient way of purchasing commodities of choice. A key contribution of agent technology will be to develop personal agents that can assist...
Privacy is becoming an increasingly important issue in many data mining applications, particularly in the security and defense area. This has triggered the development of many pri...
Data on individuals and entities are being collected widely. These data can contain information that explicitly identifies the individual (e.g., social security number). Data can ...
Large-scale, ground-level urban imagery has recently developed as an important element of online mapping tools such as Google’s Street View. Such imagery is extremely valuable i...