Challenges and resources for evaluating geographical IR Page 1 Challenges and Resources for
Evaluating Geographical IR Bruno Martins, Mário J. Silva and Marcirio Silveira Chaves …

We have been developing a geographic Web search system to retrieve proper Web pages
for a user-specified geographic area. One of location specification methods possible in the …

As use of the World Wide Web (WWW) and mobile devices spreads and becomes more
advanced, people are increasingly able to use mobile devices, such as cell phones, to …

Although there is various useful information on the web, it is very hard to identify proper web
pages, due to the problem of heterogonous and large amount of volume. In case of caching …

The web cache management in mobile devices becomes to be an important problem. In this
paper, we discuss that the traditional cache method LRU (Least Recently Used) is not su …

In order to utilize geographic web information for digital city applications, we have been
developing a geographic web search system, KyotoSEARCH. When users retrieve …

It is very important to identify web pages strongly related to some locations. In this paper, we
introduce the concept of the degree of locality which shows the strength of relationships …

This paper presents a new concept for accurate modeling and timing simulation of electronic
systems integrated in a typical VHDL design environment, taking into account the …

Rapid progress in web database technologies and digital broadcasting technologies has
made it possible to provide a vast volume of information. Usually, users use keywords or …

With the explosive growth of the web, people often need to monitor fresh information about
their areas of interest by browsing the same sites repeatedly. Especially, even for a local …