We report results for an independent, blind evaluation of the performance of 11 commercial search engines on 106 online service queries and on 54 topic relevance queries. We found...
Information retrieval tools and search engines have mainly been leveraging research results and technologies developed for the English language. In this paper we report the issues...
The XML Key Management Specification (XKMS) is described. XKMS is a Web Service that provides an interface between an XML application and a Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). XKMS g...
Mobile devices will become an important platform for Internet access. Due to size constraints, in many circumstances speech is the most desirable mode of input. We have developed ...
Mobile software agents are an increasingly important programming model within the World Wide Web (WWW). Typically programmed in Java or another machine- independent language, the ...
The paper discusses recent web Accessibility Audits produced by the authors [8] ? audits that have the dual aims of raising accessibility levels of the subject sites and the gener...
Lorna Gibson, David Sloan, Peter Gregor, Paul Boot...
We consider the problem of improving the performance of web access by proposing a reconstruction of the internal link structure of a web site in order to match the quality of the ...
John D. Garofalakis, Panagiotis Kappos, Christos M...
Information agents are computational software systems that provides transparent access to many different information sources in the Internet, and to be able to retrieve, analyze, ...
By the use of declarative rules, automation of tasks can be performed through an electronic personal information management (PIM) application. Rules can be used in a variety of di...