Contextual information provides an important basis for identifying and understanding users' information needs. Our previous work in traditional information retrieval systems ...
Previews and overviews of large, heterogeneous information resources help users comprehend the scope of collections and focus on particular subsets of interest. For narrative docu...
The COTESYS cluster of excellence1 investigates cognition for technical systems such as vehicles, robots, and factories. Cognitive technical systems (CTS) are information processi...
In this paper, we consider the problem of how to represent the locations of Internet hosts in a Cartesian coordinate system to facilitate estimate of the network distance between ...
Large collections of scanned documents (books and journals) are now available in Digital Libraries. The most common method for retrieving relevant information from these collectio...