n explore and understand abstract information spaces as if they were real geographic spaces. According to the distance-similarity metaphor1 one of the most popular spatial metaphor...
Sara Irina Fabrikant, Daniel R. Montello, David M....
Internet search engines identify web pages that contain user-specified keywords, and then rank these pages according to their (heuristically assessed) relevance to the user’s qu...
Social media sites (e.g., Flickr, YouTube, and Facebook) are a popular distribution outlet for users looking to share their experiences and interests on the Web. These sites host ...
Tools for mining information from data can create added value for the Internet. As the majority of electronic documents available over the network are in unstructured textual form...
We present a new image compression technique called DjVu" that is speci cally geared towards the compression of scanned documents in color at high resolution. With DjVu, a ma...