Middleware becomes increasingly important in building distributed applications. Conventional middleware systems are designed, implemented, and packaged before applications are dev...
Many virtual communities involve ongoing discussions, with large numbers of users and established, if implicit rules for participation. As new users enter communities like this, b...
We streamline and extend APlace, the general analytic placement engine based on ideas of Naylor et al. [7] and described in [3, 4, 5]. Previous work explored the adaptability of A...
Automatic text classification is an important operational problem in digital library practice. Most text classification efforts so far concentrated on developing centralized solut...
We propose a new method for automated large scale gathering of Web images relevant to specified concepts. Our main goal is to build a knowledge base associated with as many conce...