Many important search tasks require multiple search sessions to complete. Tasks such as travel planning, large purchases, or job searches can span hours, days, or even weeks. Inev...
Eugene Agichtein, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, ...
The “amount” of knowledge is constantly growing. Technological advances more and more facilitate an access to knowledge in an anytime, anywhere, and anyhow manner. The provisi...
Manfred Bortenschlager, Lyndon J. B. Nixon, Robert...
This paper addresses several aspects related to the distribution of content. The first aim is to provide an overview of the Universal Multimedia Access (UMA) concept. The primary...
This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
We will describe the outline of the cryptographic technology evaluation project in Japan and those present conditions. The purpose of this project is that the cyptographic technolo...