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PERVASIVE
2008
Springer
15 years 6 months ago
Microsearch: When Search Engines Meet Small Devices
Abstract. In this paper, we present Microsearch, a search system suitable for small devices used in ubiquitous computing environments. Akin to a desktop search engine, Microsearch ...
Chiu Chiang Tan, Bo Sheng, Haodong Wang, Qun Li
ESORICS
2009
Springer
16 years 1 months ago
Private Information Retrieval Techniques for Enabling Location Privacy in Location-Based Services
Abstract. The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware handheld devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of locationbased services (LBS) tailored to user l...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SSD
1993
Springer
237views Database» more  SSD 1993»
15 years 10 months ago
A Small Set of Formal Topological Relationships Suitable for End-User Interaction
Topological relationships between spatial objects represent important knowledge that users of geographic information systems expect to retrieve from a spatial database. A di cult t...
Eliseo Clementini, Paolino Di Felice, Peter van Oo...
NGC
2000
Springer
101views Communications» more  NGC 2000»
15 years 6 months ago
Information Access in Multimedia Databases Based on Feature Models
With the increasing popularity of the WWW, the main challenge in computer science has become content-based retrieval of multimedia objects. Access to multimedia objects in database...
Arjen P. de Vries, Menzo Windhouwer, Peter M. G. A...
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Enhancing Relevance Models with Adaptive Passage Retrieval
Passage retrieval and pseudo relevance feedback/query expansion have been reported as two effective means for improving document retrieval in literature. Relevance models, while im...
Xiaoyan Li, Zhigang Zhu