An infosuasive web application is mainly intended to be at the same time informative and persuasive, i.e., it aims at supporting knowledge needs and it has also the (declared or n...
The Semantic Web is based on accessing and reusing RDF data from many different sources, which one may assign different levels of authority and credibility. Existing Semantic Web ...
Bernhard Schueler, Sergej Sizov, Steffen Staab, Du...
Online photo services such as Flickr and Zooomr allow users to share their photos with family, friends, and the online community at large. An important facet of these services is ...
Query result caching is an important mechanism for search engine efficiency. In this study, we first review several query features that are used to determine the contents of a sta...
The research objective of this work is to develop a general framework that incorporates collaborative social tagging with a novel ontology scheme conveying multiple perspectives. ...
Easy reuse and integration of declaratively described information in a distributed setting is one of the main motivations for building the Semantic Web. Despite of this claim, reu...
In this paper, we present a new web browsing system, Seamless Browser, for fast link traversal on a large screen like TV In navigating web, users mainly suffer from cognitive over...
People often use computers other than their own to access web content, but blind users are restricted to using computers equipped with expensive, special-purpose screen reading pr...
Jeffrey P. Bigham, Craig Prince, Richard E. Ladner
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...