New devices gaining access to the Internet need to obtain multimedia content adapted to their limited capacities. Scalable formats allow to retrieve different versions of a single...
Local tag structures have become frequent through Web 2.0: Users "tag" their data without specifying the underlying semantics. Every user annotates items in an individual...
interactive teaching materials, primarily because of its integration with the web through the applet mechanism. The 1997 and 1998 ITiCSE conferences convened working groups to deve...
An interactive track was included in INEX for the first time in 2004. The main aim of the track was to study the behaviour of searchers when interacting with components of XML doc...
Given a user keyword query, current Web search engines return a list of individual Web pages ranked by their "goodness" with respect to the query. Thus, the basic unit fo...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Tao Li