Web search engines exploit conjunctive queries and special ranking criteria which differ from the disjunctive queries typically used for ad-hoc retrieval. We wanted to asses the e...
The paper presents a visualization-based approach to explore large databases of geographic metadata. The aim of the data exploration is to search and acquire expressive geographic...
Riccardo Albertoni, Alessio Bertone, Monica De Mar...
Multi-threaded programming is difficult and error prone. It is easy to make a mistake in synchronization that produces a data race, yet it can be extremely hard to locate this mi...
Stefan Savage, Michael Burrows, Greg Nelson, Patri...
Analysis of Google Influenza-like-illness (ILI) search queries has shown a strongly correlated pattern with Center for Disease Control and Prevention seasonal ILI reporting data. W...
Courtney Corley, Armin R. Mikler, Karan P. Singh, ...
ImageCLEF's Wikipedia Retrieval task provides a testbed for the system-oriented evaluation of multimedia information retrieval from a collection of Wikipedia images. The aim i...