The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
The Infrastructure of modern society is controlled by software systems that are vulnerable to attack. Successful attacks on these systems can lead to catastrophic results; the sur...
An improved prototype of the “voiscape” voice communication medium has been developed and subjectively evaluated. Voiscape enables natural and seamless voice communication by ...
Web-based social systems enable new community-based opportunities for participants to engage, share, and interact. This community value and related services like search and advert...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...