In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...
Interactive history tools, ranging from basic undo and redo to branching timelines of user actions, facilitate iterative forms of interaction. In this paper, we investigate the des...
Jeffrey Heer, Jock D. Mackinlay, Chris Stolte, Man...
With the spread of digital cameras, shooting photos has been becoming an everyday affair. However, there are few methods or systems to manage photos simply, and a huge amount of ...
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,...
Information requirements analysis for data warehouse systems differs significantly from requirements analysis for conventional information systems. Based on interviews with projec...