This paper presents a framework for personal agents that respect the privacy of the individual. We present some motivations and outline a framework for the use of personal agents a...
Ian Dickinson, Dave Reynolds, Dave Banks, Steve Ca...
Context-awareness for information retrieval is challenging problem as information about the users current situation is rarely available. If such information would be available, re...
In this paper we describe the design for the Pvault software, which is a personal data manager that stores and retrieves data from a remote untrusted data server securely. The maj...
Ravi Chandra Jammalamadaka, Sharad Mehrotra, Nalin...
The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is dened a...
Scientific digital libraries serve complex and evolving research communities. Justifications for the development of scientific digital libraries include the desire to preserve sci...
J. Steven Hughes, Daniel J. Crichton, Chris Mattma...