The web is enormous and constantly growing. User-interfaces for web-based applications need to make it easy for people to access relevant information without becoming overwhelmed or disoriented. Today’s interfaces employ textual representations almost exclusively, typically organized in lists and hierarchies of web-page titles or URL taxonomies. Given the ability of images to assist memory and ...

Rapid technological developments and deregulation of the telecommunications industry have changed the way in which content providers distribute and price their goods and services. Instead of selling a bundle of content and access through proprietary networks, these firms are shifting their distribution channels to the Internet. In this new setting, the content and Internet service providers fin...

Today with the rapid development of information technology, it is becoming more and more important to be able to share traffic information between various traffic management administrations. The purpose of this paper is to discuss a data fusion algorithm based on Self Organizing Maps (SOMs) for Integrated Traffic Information System (ITIS), which is one of an essential part of Intelligent Transp...

This article presents a new information management method called user-con gurable clustering that integrates the exibility of clustering systems in handling novel data and the ease of use of categorization systems in providing structure. Based on a predictive self-organizing network that performs synchronized clustering of information and preference vectors, we illustrate how a user can in uenc...

The automated retrieval of information in Environment Information Systems by information agents is severely hindered by the heterogeneity of these systems. For the decision if an information is a relevant answer to a query, information agents need to understand semantics and context of the query. In this paper we propose our concept of describing and exploiting contextual relations in the domai...