We present an account of designing and evaluating a university-wide expert search engine. We performed system-based evaluation to determine the optimal retrieval settings and an ex...
We propose a set of sketch-based interaction techniques for efficient retrieval of multimedia related to locations. The user makes a simple sketch on a map to interact with it, in...
Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
The number of Web-databases has exploded during the last years. In order to justify the development of new information resources, it is essential to know if the use of existing re...
Current mobility management systems are operator centralized, and focused on single link technologies. In heterogeneous wireless mesh networks, vertical handovers could be a length...
Amine M. Houyou, Alexander Stenzer, Hermann de Mee...