This paper presents the design of a procedural framework for an electronic market mediation service based on the adjusted-winner procedure for fair division. The main benefit of a...
In this paper we address the problem of analyzing and managing complex dynamic scenes captured in video. We present an approach to summarize video datasets by analyzing the trajec...
Anthony Stefanidis, Panos Partsinevelos, Peggy Ago...
City councils have not yet benefited as much from modern information systems as the other administrations. In the Cuparla project, members of the Stuttgart city councils were each...
With the massive advance of electronic document repositories, usable interfaces to these repositories gain importance. While sophisticated information retrieval techniques provide...
Spatio-temporal databases have been the focus of considerable research activity over a significant period. However, there are as of yet very few prototypes of complete systems, f...
Norman W. Paton, Alvaro A. A. Fernandes, Tony Grif...
In European-funded project MIS under the MLIS programme, the authors attempted a computer-driven translation package for tourism texts in 5 languages. It was believed such a packa...
Situational aspects are very helpful to decide relevance but they have often been left aside by Information Retrieval models. The standard logical approach to Information Retrieva...
Intentional agents are charged with generating and executing intentionally plans of action towards the achievement of their goals. They operate in multi-agent systems and situatio...
Fernando Lopes, Nuno J. Mamede, Augusto Q. Novais,...
This paper discusses the evaluation of a visual information seeking system for the Web called INSYDER. The aim of INSYDER is to find business information on the Web. The evaluatio...