In the everyday business world, the sourcing process of multiple goods and services usually involves complex negotiations (via telephone, fax, etc) that include discussion of prod...
Travel route planning is an important step for a tourist to prepare his/her trip. As a common scenario, a tourist usually asks the following questions when he/she is planning his/...
Purpose – Web search engines are frequently used by people to locate information on the Internet. However, not all queries have an informational goal. Instead of information, so...
Ashish Kathuria, Bernard J. Jansen, Carolyn Hafern...
Proactive contextual information systems help people locate information by automatically suggesting potentially relevant resources based on their current tasks or interests. Such ...
Daniel Billsus, David M. Hilbert, Dan Maynes-Aminz...
Content delivery systems constitute a major portion of today's Internet traffic. While they are a good source of revenue for Internet Service Providers (ISPs), the huge volum...
Ingmar Poese, Benjamin Frank, Bernhard Ager, Georg...