Multimedia information retrieval systems design is currently considered a complex task since it requires an understanding of users specific way of searching, processing and using ...
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...
Abstract. This paper presents an approach to semi-automate photo annotation. Instead of using content-recognition techniques this approach leverages context information available a...
This paper presents Adaptive Web Search (AWS), a novel search technique that combines personalized, social, and realtime collaborative search. Preliminary empirical results from a...
We consider the network structure and query processing capabilities of social communities like bookmarks and photo sharing communities such as del.icio.us or flickr. A common fea...