Researchers of commercial search engines often collect data using the application programming interface (API) or by "scraping" results from the web user interface (WUI),...
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...
The increasing importance of Unicode for text encoding implies a possible doubling of data storage space and data transmission time, with a corresponding need for data compression...
Service-oriented architectures (SOA) will provide the basis of the next generation of distributed software systems, and have already gained enormous traction in the industry throu...
We present in this poster our work on a User Interface Markup Language (UIML) vocabulary for the specification of device- and modality independent user interfaces. The work presen...