In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
This paper presents a novel probabilistic approach to fusing multimodal metadata for event based home photo clustering. Photo events are characterized by the coherence of multimod...
Tao Mei, Bin Wang, Xian-Sheng Hua, He-Qin Zhou, Sh...
An important application of semantic web technology is recognizing human-defined concepts in text. Query transformation is a strategy often used in search engines to derive querie...
Edgar Meij, Marc Bron, Laura Hollink, Bouke Huurni...
Using keyword search to find relevant objects in digital libraries often results in way too large result sets. Based on the metadata associated with such objects, the faceted sear...
Existing distributed hash tables provide efficient mechanisms for storing and retrieving a data item based on an exact key, but are unsuitable when the search key is similar, but ...