People frequently use the world-wide web to find their most preferred item among a large range of options. We call this task preference-based search. The most common tool for pref...
Studies show that about 50% of web search is for information exploration purpose, where a user would like to investigate, compare, evaluate, and synthesize multiple relevant resul...
In this paper we present two contributions to improve accuracy and speed of an image search system based on bag-of-features: a contextual dissimilarity measure (CDM) and an effici...
This paper reports on work-in-progress to better understand how users visually interact with hierarchically organized semantic information. Experimental reaction time and eye move...
This paper presents an approach to searching for deadlocks in Concurrent Haskell programs. The search is based on a redefinition of the IO monad which allows the reversal of Concu...