Online systems that help users select the most preferential item from a large electronic
catalog are known as product search and recommender systems. Evaluation of various …

BACKGROUND Access to electronic information has grown exponentially over the years.
Mass storage devices, such as CD-ROMs, DVDs, hard disks, etc., store more information …

Visual interfaces are potentially powerful tools for users to explore a representation of a
collection and opportunistically discover information that will guide them toward relevant …

Effective opportunistic search in visual interfaces for large information collections, such as
documents, web pages, and annotated images, often requires domain knowledge that the …

Search goals are often too complex or poorly defined to be solved with a single query in a
web-based information environment. In this paper we describe how we use semantic fisheye …

Visual interfaces play an increasingly important role in how we access, analyze, and
understand information. However, most such interfaces do not support opportunistic …

With the evolution of mobile technology, many devices are introduced with very limited
screen sizes like smart glasses. This technology must be accompanied with new …

Mobile devices, such as smartphones and other personal devices, are increasingly used to
view maps and other large datasets. Their necessarily small displays can only show a small …

With the increasing ubiquity of sensors and computational resources, it is becoming easier
and increasingly common for people to electronically record, photographs, text, audio, and …

With progress in technology, information management systems are transitioning from storing
well defined entities and relationships to the challenge of managing multifarious …