'Time'and 'temporality'are increasingly addressed in human-computer interaction (HCI)
research. From issues related to mapping and visualizing data along timelines via …

Standard security protocols are heavy weight interms of memory foot prints which make all
the security protocol unfit for budgeted platforms such as Internet of Things (IoT). The …

Twitter has become a major outlet for news, discussion and commentary of on-going events
and trends. Effective searching of Twitter collections poses a number of issues for traditional …

The use of temporal data extracted from text, to improve the effectiveness of Information
Retrieval systems, has recently been the focus of important research work. Our research …

Microblog Ad-hoc retrieval has received much attention in recent years. As a result of the
high vocabulary diversity of the publishing users, a mismatch is formed between the queries …

As the information era progresses, the sheer volume of information calls for sophisticated
retrieval systems. Evaluating them holds the key to ensuring the reliability and relevance of …

Existing automatic image annotation (AIA) systems that depend solely on low-level image
features often produce poor results, particularly when annotating real-life collections. Tag co …

There has been growing momentum in building information retrieval (IR) systems that
consider both relevance and diversity of retrieved information, which together improve the …

Abstract Information searching in microblog services has become common and necessary
for social networking. However, microblog retrieval is particularly challenging compared to …

In recent years microblogging services have changed the way we communicate. Microblogs
are a reduced version of web-blogs which are characterised by being just a few characters …