Digital Libraries Initiative (DLI) Projects (2009)
Edward A. Fox, Edward A. Fox, Edward Fox Is
his special section of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science on the Digital Libraries Initiative begins with an article by the guest editor that provides an overview of the...
Since 1992, CS5604 has been offered in a new format that synthesizes educational and technological approaches oriented toward improvements in motivation, comprehension, test performance, grades,...
Digital Libraries in particular, and Information Systems in general, engender no consensus regarding theoretical foundations. In the trivial case, all information systems can be modeled...
O. Hayden Griffin, Edward A. Fox, Calvin J. Ribbens, Richard M. Goff, ...
Abstract – Primarily as a result of the move of Computer
Improving Education and Understanding of NDLTD (2008)
Seungwon Yang, Sanghee Oh, Jeffrey P. Pomerantz, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Edward A. Fox
To understand ETDs, what NDLTD is, how it works, and the benefits of NDLTD, it is necessary to educate those involved, such as students who will create and submit their ETDs, as well as the library...
5SGraph Demo: A Graphical Modeling Tool for Digital Libraries (2008)
Qinwei Zhu, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox
The current demand from non-experts who wish to build digital libraries is strong worldwide. However, since DLs are complex systems, it usually takes a huge amount of effort and time to create and...
A Digital Library for Recovery, Research, and Learning from April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech (2008)
Edward A. Fox, Christopher Andrews, Weiguo Fan, Jian Jiao, Ananya Kassahun, Szu-chia Lu, ...
We are developing a digital library to help during the long-term recovery from the mass shooting on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Content comes from uploaded texts, images, videos, and other...
Using Superimposed and Context Information to Find and Re-find Sub-documents (2008)
Sudarshan Murthy, Uma Murthy, Edward A. Fox
Superimposed information (SI) is new information such as annotations created in reference to bits of existing information. SI references existing information using an abstraction called mark. A mark...
Usability Study of Digital Libraries: ACM, IEEE-CS, NCSTRL, NDLTD (2008)
Rekha Kengeri, Cheryl D. Seals, Himabindu P. Reddy, Hope D. Harley, Edward A. Fox
If digital libraries are to be used effectively, research must be done to investigate and enhance their utility. We observed 48 participants as they worked with the following digital libraries: ACM,...
Submit only ONE copy of this form for each PI/PD and co-PI/PD identified on the proposal. The form(s) should be attached to the original proposal as specified in GPG Section II.B. Submission of this...
Sulieman Bani-ahmad, Ali Cakmak, Gultekin Ozsoyoglu, Abdullah Al-hamdani, Xiaoyan Yu, O Das-neves, ...
The Bulletin of the Technical Committee on Data Engineering is published quarterly and is distributed to all TC members. Its scope includes the design, implementation, modelling, theory and...
ABSTRACT Intelligent Fusion of Structural and Citation-Based Evidence for Text Classification (2008)
Baoping Zhang, Marcos André, Weiguo Fan, Yuxin Chen, Edward A. Fox
This paper investigates how citation-based information and structural content (e.g., title, abstract) can be combined to improve classification of text documents into predefined categories. We...
Using Superimposed and Context Information to Find and Re-find Sub-documents (2008)
Sudarshan Murthy, Uma Murthy, Edward A. Fox
Superimposed information (SI) is new information such as annotations created in reference to bits of existing information. SI references existing information using an abstraction called mark. A mark...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD). The goals of (2008)
Seonho Kim, Subodh Lele, Sreeram Ramalingam, Edward A. Fox
its application to data logged regarding interactions of 1,200 users of the
Marcos André Gonçalves, Panchanathan Unnikrishnan Ravindranathan, Aaron Krowne, Edward A. Fox
We describe current efforts and developments building on our proposal for an XML log standard format for digital library (DL) logging analysis and companion tools. Focus is given to the evolution of...
Using Concept Maps in NDLTD as a Cross-Language Summarization Tool for Computing–Related ETDs (2008)
Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox
Abstract heading Concept maps, introduced by Novak, aid learners ’ understanding. We hypothesize that concept maps also can function as a summary of large documents (e.g., ETDs). Our system...
Xiaoyan Yu, Fernando Das-neves, Edward A. Fox
2003 was that in collections like those used for TREC 6-8, there are a number of hard queries for which no current search engine can return a high quality set of results. Our Stepping Stones and...
Multilingual Noun Phrase Extraction Using a Part-of-Speech Tagger (2008)
John O. Woods, Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox
Accurate noun phrase extraction for large texts in multiple languages is useful for building indexes for corpora, particularly for phrase-based searching. Extraction of noun phrases is also useful...
DIGITAL LIBRARIES: ARCHAEOLOGY, AUTOMATION, ETDS, AND ENHANCEMENTS (2008)
How can we build digital libraries (DLs) more quickly and better? Our next-generation approach is based on the 5S framework, of Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies. In particular,...
CORE TOPICS IN DIGITAL LIBRARY EDUCATION (2008)
Seungwon Yang, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Edward A. Fox, Jeffrey Pomerantz, Sanghee Oh
Modern societies are producing and consuming an enormous amount of information every day. The need for quality organized information has been growing rapidly. Various digital libraries (DLs) have...
Automatic Syllabus Classification using Support Vector Machines (2008)
Xiaoyan Yu, Manas Tungare, Weiguo Fan, Yubo Yuan, Manuel Pérez-quiñones, Edward A. Fox, ...
Syllabi are important educational resources. Gathering syllabi that are freely available and creating useful services on top of the collection presents great value for the educational community....
List of Supported Students and Staff (2008)
Edward A. Fox, Edward A. Fox, Marcos Andre Gonçalves, Ryan Richardson
The Networked University Digital Library (NUDL) is a worldwide initiative that addresses making the intellectual capital produced in universities more accessible, stimulating international...
The Role of Digital Libraries in Moving Toward Knowledge Environments (2008)
Edward A. Fox, Marcos André Gonçalves, Rao Shen
Abstract. For thousands of years, libraries have allowed humanity to collect and organize data and information, and to support the discovery and communication of knowledge, across time and space....
Edward A. Fox, O Das Neves, Xiaoyan Yu, Rao Shen, Seonho Kim, Weiguo Fan
the computing literature with visualization and
Edward A. Fox, Christopher Andrews, Weiguo Fan, Jian Jiao, Ananya Kassahun, Szu-chia Lu, ...
A Digital Library for Recovery … We are developing a digital library to help during the long-term recovery from the mass shooting on April 16, 2007 at Virginia Tech. Content comes from uploaded...
Abstract Overview of Digital Library Components and Developments (2008)
Digital libraries are being built upon a firm foundation of prior work as the high-end information systems of the future. A component architecture approach is becoming popular, with well established...
Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox
Project Gutenburg, the Million Book Project, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, Amazon’s book search service, and the recently announced collaboration of Google and leading...
Applying the 5S framework to integrating digital libraries (2008)
Edward A. Fox, Joanne D. Eustis, Weiguo Fan, Chang-tien Lu, Rao Shen, ...
We formalize the digital library (DL) integration problem and propose an overall approach based on the 5S (Streams, Structures, Spaces, Scenarios, and Societies) framework. We then apply that...
NDLTD for UK DL Chapter XXX Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (2008)
Edward A. Fox, Gail Mcmillan, Hussein Suleman, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Ming Luo
(NDLTD, see www.ndltd.org), as an example of digital library practice. It builds upon discussion in earlier chapters on policy – touching on content, preservation, evaluation, and economics. In the...
Abstract Visualizing Search Results: Some Alternatives To Query-Document Similarity (2008)
Lucy Terry Newell, Robert K. France, Deborah Hix, Lenwood S. Heath, Edward A. Fox
provides powerful information visualization by displaying search results as a matrix of icons, with layout semantics under user control. Envision’s Graphic View interacts with an Item Summary...
Technology and Research in a Global Networked University Digital Library (NUDL) (2008)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox
complexos de informação que suportam a criação, gestão, distribuição e preservação de fontes complexas de informação, enquanto permitem uma interação eficaz e eficiente entre as diversas...
ABSTRACT A New Framework to Combine Descriptors for Content-based Image Retrieval ∗ (2008)
Alexandre X. Falcão, Baoping Zhang, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
In this paper, we propose a novel framework using Genetic Programming to combine image database descriptors for content-based image retrieval (CBIR). Our framework is validated through several...
A New Framework to Combine Descriptors for Content-based Image Retrieval (2008)
Baoping Zhang, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
Methods that combine image database descriptors have strong influence on the effectiveness of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Although there are many combination functions described in...
Automatic metadata generation provides scalability and usability for digital libraries and their collections. Machine learning methods offer robust and adaptable automatic metadata extraction. We...
Guest Editor Virtual Video Editing in Interactive Multimedia Applications (2008)
Drawing examples from four interrelated sets of multimedia tools and applications under development at MIT, the authors examine the role of digitized video in the areas of entertainment, learning,...
VT at TREC-2003: The Web Track Report (2008)
Rui Yang, Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
This year, we participated in the Web Track in addition to the Robust Track. We submitted results on both topic distillation and home page/named page finding tasks. As our time and human resources...
ABSTRACT Machine Learning Approach for Homepage Finding Task (2008)
This paper describes new machine learning approaches to predict the correct homepage in response to a user’s homepage finding query. This involves two phases. In the first phase, a decision tree is...
Can We Get A Better Retrieval Function From Machine? (2008)
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox
The quality of an information retrieval system heavily depends on its retrieval function, which returns a similarity measurement between the query and each document in the collection. Documents are...
Ranking Function Discovery by Genetic Programming for Robust Retrieval (2008)
Li Wang, Weiguo Fan, Rui Yang, Wensi Xi, Ming Luo, Ye Zhou, ...
Ranking functions are instrumental for the success of an information retrieval (search engine) system. However nearly all existing ranking functions are manually designed based on experience,...
Integrating Image and Spatial Data for Biodiversity (2008)
Estadual De Campinas, Edward A. Fox
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A New Framework to Combine Descriptors for Content-based Image Retrieval (2008)
Baoping Zhang, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
Methods that combine image database descriptors have strong influence on the effectiveness of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) systems. Although there are many combination functions described in...
Edward A. Fox, Neill A. Kipp, Paul Mather
ing with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, to republish, to post on servers, to redistribute to lists, or to use any component of this work in other works, requires prior specific permission...
Crawling on the World Wide Web (2007)
As the World Wide Web grows rapidly, a web search engine is needed for people to search through the Web. The crawler is an important module of a web search engine. The quality of a crawler directly...
In 1999 an international consortium proposed to work toward a Networked University Digital Library (NUDL), to enhance cooperation among universities in the digital library area. NSF has provided...
Rao Shen, Ryan Richardson, Edward A. Fox
maps as visual interfaces to digital libraries:
Exon expression profiling reveals stimulus-mediated exon use in neural cells (2007)
McKee, Adrienne E, Neretti, Nicola, Carvalho, Luis E, Meyer, Clifford A, Fox, Edward A, Brodsky, Alexander S, ...
Abstract Background: Neuronal cells respond to changes in intracellular calcium ([Ca 2+ ] i ) by affecting both the abundance and architecture of specific mRNAs. Although calcium-induced...
Core Topics in Digital Library Education (2007)
Yang, Seungwon, Wildemuth, Barbara M., Fox, Edward A., Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Oh, Sanghee
Modern societies are producing and consuming an enormous amount of information every day. The need for quality organized information has been growing rapidly. Various digital libraries (DLs) have...
Romero, Viviana, Larsen, Charles E, Duke-Cohan, Jonathan S, Fox, Edward A, Romero, Tatiana, Clavijo, Olga P, ...
Abstract Background The definition of human MHC class I haplotypes through association of HLA-A, HLA-Cw and HLA-B has been used to analyze ethnicity, population migrations and disease association....
L.: Towards a syllabus repository for computer science courses (2007)
Manas Tungare, Xiaoyan Yu, William Cameron, Guofang Teng, Lillian Cassel, ...
A syllabus defines the contents of a course, as well as other information such as resources and assignments. In this paper, we report on our work towards creating a syllabus repository of Computer...
Nicholas O. Andrews, Edward A. Fox
This report aims to give a brief overview of the current state of document clustering research and present recent developments in a well-organized manner. Clustering algorithms are considered with...
A Novel Hybrid Focused Crawling Algorithm to Build Domain-Specific Collections (2007)
Yuxin Chen, Edward A. Fox, Weiguo Fan, Chang-tien Lu, Naren Ramakrishnan, ...
The Web, containing a large amount of useful information and resources, is expanding rapidly. Collecting domain-specific documents/information from the Web is one of the most important methods to...
Clustering for Data Reduction: A Divide and Conquer Approach (2007)
Nicholas O. Andrews, Edward A. Fox
We consider the problem of reducing a potentially very large dataset to a subset of representative prototypes. Rather than searching over the entire space of prototypes, we first roughly divide the...
The Core: Digital Library Education in Library and Information Science Programs (2006)
Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Oh, Sanghee, Yang, Seungwon, Fox, Edward A., Wildemuth, Barbara M.
This paper identifies the "state of the art" in digital library education in Library and Information Science programs, by identifying the readings that are assigned in digital library courses and the...
ETDs, NDLTD, and open access: a 5S perspective (2006)
Fox,Edward A., Yang,Seungwon, Kim,Seonho
Worldwide initiatives toward digital library (DL) support for electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs), facilitated by the work of the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD),...
Rameen Beroukhim, Ming Lin, Yuhyun Park, Ke Hao, Xiaojun Zhao, Levi A. Garraway, ...
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...
Rameen Beroukhim, Ming Lin, Yuhyun Park, Ke Hao, Xiaojun Zhao, Levi Alec Garraway, ...
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...
Curriculum Development for Digital Libraries (2006)
Pomerantz, Jeffrey, Wildemuth, Barbara M., Yang, Seungwon, Fox, Edward A.
The Virginia Tech Department of Computer Science (VT CS) and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Information and Library Science (UNC SILS) have launched a curriculum...
Exploring Digital Libraries: Integrating Browsing, Searching, and Visualization (2006)
Rao Shen, Naga Srinivas Vemuri, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
Exploring services for digital libraries (DLs) include two major paradigms, browsing and searching, as well as other services such as clustering and visualization. In this paper, we formalize and...
SIERRA: A Superimposed Application for Enhanced Image Description and Retrieval (2006)
Abstract. In this demo proposal, we describe our prototype application, SIERRA, which combines text-based and content-based image retrieval and allows users to link together image content of varying...
A Content-Based Image Retrieval Service for Archaeology Collections (2006)
Naga Srinivas Vemuri, Rao Shen, Marcos André Gonçalves, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. Archeological sites have heterogeneous information ranging from different artifacts, image data, geo-spatial information, chronological data, and other relevant metadata. ETANA-DL, an...
Manas Tungare, Xiaoyan Yu, Manuel Pérez-quiñones, Edward A. Fox, Lillian Cassel
Abstract. A course offering is a collection of learning objects composed together based on a syllabus. Syllabi define the contents of the course, as well as other information such as resources and...
Baoping Zhang, Edward A. Fox, Weiguo Fan, Chang-tien Lu, Dan Spitzner, Pável Calado
Classification
A Neighborhood-Based Approach for Clustering of Linked Document Collections (2006)
Angelova, Ralitsa, Siersdorfer, Stefan, Yu, Philip S., Tsotras, Vassilis J., Fox, Edward A., Liu, Bing
This paper addresses the problem of automatically structuring linked document collections by using clustering. In contrast to traditional clustering, we study the clustering problem in the light of...
Michel, Sebastian, Bender, Matthias, Ntarmos, Nikos, Triantafillou, Peter, Weikum, Gerhard, Zimmer, Christian, ...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) search requires intelligent decisions for {\em query routing}: selecting the best peers to which a given query, initiated at some peer, should be forwarded for retrieving...
Rank Synopses for Efficient Time Travel on the Web Graph (2006)
Berberich, Klaus, Bedathur, Srikanta J., Weikum, Gerhard, Yu, Philip S., Tsotras, Vassilis J., Fox, Edward A., ...
Brodsky, Alexander S, Meyer, Clifford A, Swinburne, Ian A, Hall, Giles, Keenan, Benjamin J, Liu, Xiaole S, ...
Abstract Background Transcription by RNA polymerase II is regulated at many steps including initiation, promoter release, elongation and termination. Accumulation of RNA polymerase II at particular...
Design Architecture: An Introduction and Overview (2005)
Fox, Edward A., Suleman, Hussein, Gaur, Ramesh C., Madalli, Devika P.
Digital libraries evolved in response to the need to manage the vast quantities of electronic information that we produce, collect, and consume. Architects of such systems have adopted a variety of...
Seonho Kim, Uma Murthy, Kapil Ahuja, I Vasile, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. Most user focused data mining techniques involve purchase pattern analysis, targeted at strictly-formatted database-like transaction records. Most personalization systems employ explicitly...
Simfusion: measuring similarity using unified relationship matrix (2005)
Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox, Weiguo Fan
In this paper we use a Unified Relationship Matrix (URM) to represent a set of heterogeneous data objects (e.g., web pages, queries) and their interrelationships (e.g., hyperlinks, user clickthrough...
Automatically Generating Interfaces for Personalized Interaction with Digital Libraries (2004)
Perugini, Saverio, Ramakrishnan, Naren, Fox, Edward A.
We present an approach to automatically generate interfaces supporting personalized interaction with digital libraries; these interfaces augment the user-DL dialog by empowering the user to...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) (2004)
Fox, Edward A., McMillan, Gail, Suleman, Hussein, Goncalves, Marcos A., Luo, Ming
This chapter describes the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD, see www.ndltd.org), as an example of digital library practice. It builds upon discussion in earlier chapters...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (2004)
Suleman, Hussein, Atkins, Anthony, Goncalves, Marcos A., France, Robert K., Fox, Edward A., Chachra, Vinod, ...
Wensi Xi, Benyu Zhang, Zheng Chen, Yizhou Lu, Shuicheng Yan, Wei-ying Ma, ...
Web link analysis has proven to be a significant enhancement for quality based web search. Most existing links can be classified into two categories: intra-type links (e.g., web hyperlinks), which...
Weiguo Fan, Michael D. Gordon, Praveen Pathak, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox
Abstract — Web search engines have become indispensable in our daily life to help us find the information we need. Although search engines are very fast in search response time, their effectiveness...
Y.: Macvissta: A system for multimodal analysis (2004)
Christopher L. North, Edward A. Fox, Richard Travis Rose, Richard Travis Rose
The study of embodied communication requires access to multiple data sources such as multistream video and audio, various derived and meta-data such as gesture, head, posture, facial expression and...
WS://IM: A Software Framework for Multimodal Web Interaction Management (2004)
Edward A. Fox, Scott Mccrickard, Christopher Stephen Williams, Christopher Stephen Williams
The rise of ubiquitous computing devices has provided the catalyst for the next generation World Wide Web, one that shifts the focus from the desktop computer to mobile devices such as cell phones...
Saverio Perugini, Kathleen Mcdevitt, Ryan Richardson, Manuel Perez-quiñones, Rao Shen, Naren Ramakrishnan, ...
We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal...
Weiguo Fan, Michael D. Gordon, Praveen Pathak, Wensi Xi, Edward A. Fox
Abstract — Web search engines have become indispensable in our daily life to help us find the information we need. Although search engines are very fast in search response time, their effectiveness...
ETANA-DL: a digital library for integrated handling of heterogeneous archaeological data (2004)
Unni Ravindranathan, Rao Shen, Marcos André Gonçalves, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox
Archaeologists have to deal with vast quantities of information, generated in both the field and laboratory. That information is heterogeneous in nature, and different projects have their own systems...
An OAI Compliant Content-Based Image Search Component (2004)
Claudia Bauzer Medeiros, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox
Advances in data storage and image acquisition technologies have enabled the creation of large image datasets. In order to deal with these data, appropriate information systems (e.g., image digital...
ETANA-DL: managing complex information applications - an archaeology digital library (2004)
Unni Ravindranathan, Rao Shen, Marcos André Gonçalves, Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox, James W. Flanagan
Archaeological research results in the generation of large quantities of heterogeneous information (see Figure 1) managed by different projects using custom information systems. We will demonstrate a...
Saverio Perugini, Kathleen Mcdevitt, Ryan Richardson, Manuel Perez-quiñones, Rao Shen, Naren Ramakrishnan, ...
We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal...
Streams, structures, spaces, scenarios, societies (5s): A formal model for digital libraries (2004)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox, Layne T. Watson
Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal founda-tions lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this paper, we propose the...
Weiguo Fan, Edward A. Fox, Praveen Pathak, Harris Wu, Fan Et Al
Genetic-based evolutionary learning algorithms, such as genetic algorithms (GAs) and genetic programming (GP), have been applied to information retrieval (IR) since the 1980s. Recently, GP has been...
Saverio Perugini, Kathleen Mcdevitt, Ryan Richardson, Manuel Perez-quiñones, Rao Shen, Naren Ramakrishnan, ...
We describe four usability-enhancing interfaces to CITIDEL aimed at improving the user experience and supporting personalized information access by targeted communities. These comprise: a multimodal...
Program Transformations for Information Personalization (2004)
Naren Ramakrishnan Chair, Edward A. Fox, Mary Beth Rosson, A. Lynn Abbott, Saverio Perugini, ...
Personalization constitutes the mechanisms and technologies necessary to customize information access to the end-user. It can be defined as the automatic adjustment of information content, structure,...
Interest-Based User Grouping Model for Collaborative Filtering (2004)
Abstract. Research in recommender systems focuses on applications such as in online shopping malls and simple information systems. These systems consider user profile information and item information...
Marcos André Gonçcalves, Edward A. Fox, Layne T. Watson, Naren Ramakrishnan, Weiguo Fan, ...
Digital libraries (DLs) are complex information systems and therefore demand formal foundations lest development efforts diverge and interoperability suffers. In this dissertation, we propose the...
CitiViz: A visual user interface to the CITIDEL system (2004)
Nithiwat Kampanya, Rao Shen, Seonho Kim, Chris North, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. The Digital Library (DL) field is one of the most promising areas of application for information visualization technology. In this paper, we propose a visual user interface tool kit for...
New Directions in Digital Library Componentisation (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Eyambe, Linda, Luo, Ming, Fox, Edward A.
The Open Digital Library project was created as an experimental framework to investigate component architectures for digital libraries. Its primary objectives were to determine if a model based on...
Leveraging OAI Harvesting to Disseminate Theses (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Fox, Edward A.
NDLTD, the Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations, supports and encourages the production and archiving of Electronic Theses and Dissertations (ETDs). While many current NDLTD member...
Design and Implementation of Networked Digital Libraries: Best Practices (2003)
Suleman, Hussein, Fox, Edward A., Madalli, Devika
This paper introduces the concept of Networked Digital Libraries (NDLs). Discusses the important components of NDLs. Also presents case studies of a few NDLs. Summarizes the best practices for design...
An Architecture for Multischeming in Digital Libraries (2003)
Abstract. In this paper we discuss the problem of handling many classification schemes within the context of a single digital library concurrently, which we term multischeming. We discuss how to...
Visual Semantic Modeling of Digital Libraries (2003)
Qinwei Zhu, Marcos André Gonçalves, Rao Shen, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. The current interest from non-experts who wish to build digital libraries (DLs) is strong worldwide. However, since DLs are complex systems, it usually takes considerable time and effort to...
Toward a Science Extending Digital Libraries, with a Testbed of ETDs (2003)
Workshop on Post-DL Research Directions
Scenario-Based Generation of Digital Library Services (2003)
Rohit Kelapure, Marcos André Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. We present the development, implementation, and deployment of a new generic digital library generator yielding implementations of digital library services from models of DL “societies ”...
The Web-DL environment for building digital libraries from the Web (2003)
Pável P. Calado, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Edward A. Fox, Berthier Ribeiro-neto, Altigran S. Silva, ...
The Web contains a huge volume of unstructured data, which is difficult to manage. In digital libraries, on the other hand, information is explicitly organized, described, and managed....
A Connection-Centric Survey of Recommender Systems Research (2002)
Perugini, Saverio, Goncalves, Marcos Andre, Fox, Edward A.
Recommender systems attempt to reduce information overload and retain customers by selecting a subset of items from a universal set based on user preferences. While research in recommender systems...
Towards Universal Accessibility of ETDs: Building the NDLTD Union Archive (2002)
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox
By virtue of its name, NDLTD (Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations) suggests to newcomers the existence of a collection of accessible ETDs. While many current members do indeed have...
Web-DL: An Experience in Making Digital Libraries from the Web (2002)
Pável P. Calado, Berthier Ribeiro-Neto, Juliano P. Lage, Davi C. Reis, ...
A Lightweight Protocol between Digital Libraries and Visualization Systems (2002)
Rao Shen, Jun Wang, Edward A. Fox
A lightweight protocol, VIDI, is proposed to enhance the interoperability of digital libraries (DLs) and visualization systems (VIS). VIDI is related to the Open Digital Library project, which...
Building Digital Libraries Made Easy: Toward Open Digital (2002)
Edward A. Fox, Hussein Suleman, Ming Luo
Abstract. Digital libraries (DLs) promote a sharing culture among those who contribute and those who use resources. This same approach works when building Open Digital Libraries (ODLs). Leveraging...
Designing Protocols in Support of Digital Library Componentization (2002)
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. Reusability always has been a controversial topic in Digital Library (DL) design. While componentization has gained momentum in software engineering in general, there has not been broad DL...
Web-DL: An Experience on Making Digital Libraries from the Web (2002)
Pável Calado, Juliano Palmieri Lage, ...
The Web contains a huge volume of information, all of it largely unstructured and, therefore, dicult to manage. Most access to Web information is done through search engines, which make no...
Libraries Educational Resources (2002)
Edward A. Fox, Gail Mcmillan, David Pluska, Edward A. Fox, Main Messages
• Universities can improve education through digital libraries.
Technology and Research in a Global Networked University Digital Library (NUDL) (2001)
Gonçalves, Marcos André, Fox, Edward A.
As Bibliotecas Digitais (DLs) encerram sistemas extremamente complexos de informação que suportam a criação, gestão, distribuição e preservação de fontes complexas de informação, enquanto...
Technology and research in a global Networked University Digital Library (NUDL) (2001)
Gonçalves,Marcos André, Fox,Edward A.
Digital Libraries (DLs) are extremely complex information systems that support the creation, management, distribution, and preservation of complex information resources, while allowing effective and...
Overview of Digital Library Components and Developments (2001)
Digital libraries are being built upon a firm foundation of prior work as the high-end information systems of the future. A component approach is becoming popular, with well-established support for...
Overview of a Guide for Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2001)
This chapter provides an overview of a guide for electronic theses and dissertations that is being prepared as requested by UNESCO to help with the expansion of ETD activities around the world. It...
A Framework for Building Open Digital Libraries (2001)
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox
Digital Libraries (DLs) have traditionally been positioned at the intersection of library science, computer science, and networked information systems. The different underlying philosophies of these...
MARIAN: Flexible Interoperability for Federated Digital Libraries (2001)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox
Abstract. Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed, autonomous, and often heterogeneous information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected...
MARIAN: Flexible Interoperability for Federated Digital Libraries (2001)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox, Eberhard R. Hilf, Michael Hohlfeld, Kerstin Zimmermann, ...
Federated digital libraries are composed of autonomous, possibly heterogeneous information services distributed across the Internet. Federation provides users with a seamless, integrated view of the...
Hussein Suleman, Anthony Atkins, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox, Jeff Young
The Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (NDLTD) is a collaborative effort of universities around the world to promote creating, archiving, distributing and accessing Electronic...
MARIAN: Flexible Interoperability for Federated Digital Libraries (2001)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox, Eberhard R. Hilf, Kerstin Zimmermann, Thomas Severiens
Federated digital libraries are composed of distributed autonomous (heterogeneous) information services but provide users with a transparent, integrated view of collected information – respecting...
MARIAN Searching and Querying across Heterogeneous Federated Digital Libraries (2000)
Marcos André Gonçalves, Robert K. France, Edward A. Fox, Tamas E. Doszkocs
Abstract: We explore the complex problem of providing searching services across interoperable heterogeneous federated digital library systems with rich structure and content. We discuss system issues...
Building Quality into a Digital Library (2000)
Hussein Suleman, Edward A. Fox, Marc Abrams
The Web Characterization Repository contains a collection of internet log files used by researchers to analyze and improve on the architecture of the Web. This repository improves on prior...
Peel, David J., Ziogas, Argyrios, Fox, Edward A., Gildea, Maureen, Laham, Beth, Clements, Enedina, ...
Background: The incidence of hereditary nonpolyposis colon cancer (HNPCC) in the general population is not well defined because of the lack of large population-based studies. We characterized the...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (1999)
http://library.naist.jp/mylimedio/dllimedio/show.cgi?bookid=26690
Use and usability in a digital library search system (1999)
France, Robert K., Nowell, Lucy Terry, Fox, Edward A., Saad, Rani A., Zhao, Jianxin
Digital libraries must reach out to users from all walks of life, serving information needs at all levels. To do this, they must attain high standards of usability over an extremely broad audience....
Web Response Time and Proxy Caching (1998)
Binzhang Liu, Ghaleb Abdulla, Tommy Johnson, Edward A. Fox
Abstract: It is critical to understand WWW latency in order to design better HTTP protocols. In this paper we characterize Web response time and examine effects of proxy caching on response time. We...
Web Response Time and Proxy Caching (1998)
Binzhang Liu, Ghaleb Abdulla, Tommy Johnson, Edward A. Fox
It is critical to understand WWW latency in order to design better HTTP protocols. In this paper we characterize Web response time and examine effects of proxy caching on response time. We show that...
Web Traffic Latency: Characteristics and Implications (1998)
: It is critical to understand WWW latency in order to design better HTTP protocols. In this study we characterize Web response time and examine the effects of proxy caching, network bandwidth,...
WWW Proxy Traffic Characterization with Application to Caching (1998)
Ghaleb Abdulla, Edward A. Fox, Marc Abrams, Stephen Williams
Characterizing World Wide Web proxy traffic helps identify parameters that affect caching, capacity planning and simulation studies. In this paper we identify invariants that hold across a collection...
Table of Contents Problem Simple Search (1998)
James Powell, Edward A. Fox, Searchable Database, Markup Language
This article describes a scalable system for searching heterogeneous multilingual collections on the World Wide Web. It details a markup language for describing the characteristics of a search engine...
Web traffic latency: Characteristics and implications (1998)
It is critical to understand WWW latency in order to design better HTTP protocols. In this study we characterize Web response time and examine the effects of proxy caching, network bandwidth, traffic...
Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations (1997)
Edward A. Fox, Gail Mcmillan, John L. Eaton
Electronic theses and dissertations (ETDs) are a unique genre that is emerging in part as a result of the work to build the
Principle Investigators (1996)
Edward A. Fox, John L. Eaton, Gail Mcmillan
Problems: Though there are approximately 400,000 Master's or Doctoral degrees awarded nationally each year, many of the students involved are poorly prepared for a lifelong career in which...
2. Summary of Publications (1996)
Edward A. Fox, Clifford Shaffer, H. Rex Hartson, N. Dwight Barnette, Foxea Foxeb
which has developed extensive sets of laboratory manuals. Over 25 courses are available through WWW, leading to over 1.8M accesses since 1995. Now there are several gigabytes of ACM publications...
Edward A. Fox, N. Dwight Barnette, Clifford A. Shaffer, Lenwood Heath, William Wake, Lucy T. Nowell, ...
Abstract: We describe our prototype digital library in computer science based on publications from ACM and other publishers, and the integrated client and server software devised from local...
ONLINE EVALUATION IN WWW-BASED COURSEWARE: THE QUIZIT SYSTEM (1996)
Lúcio Cunha Tinoco, Edward A. Fox, Marc Abrams, Lúcio Cunha Tinoco
The QUIZIT system has been developed to support adaptive and standard testing, along with automatic grading, record keeping, and test administration using the WWW as a delivery vehicle. We have...
A Report of the NSF/IRIS Workshop (1995)
Berwick, Robert C., Carroll, John M. (John Millar), Connolly, Chris, Foley, James D., Fox, Edward A. (Edward Alan), Imielinski, Tomasz, ...
The Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Division (IRIS) of the National Science Foundation commissioned a workshop to provide a set of recommendations concerning: 1. Opportunities for...
Fred L. Drake, Lenwood S. Heath, James A. Arthur, Edward A. Fox, Fred L. Drake, Committee Chairman, ...
odb/Tools is a suite of object classes providing scriptable access to the object database facility of Project Envision. It implements an interface to the base ODB library for the Python embeddable...
\The bene ts of digital libraries will not be appreciated unless they are easy to use e ectively. " [LGM95] Information retrieval (IR) is essential for the success of digital libraries...
SortTables: A Browser for a Digital Library (1995)
William C. Wake, Edward A. Fox
Much research in information retrieval has focused more on matching results to queries than on browsing those results. After briefly exploring browsing in physical and electronic libraries, we...
A Report of the NSF/IRIS Workshop (1995)
Berwick, Robert C., Carroll, John M. (John Millar), Connolly, Chris, Foley, James D., Fox, Edward A. (Edward Alan), Imielinski, Tomasz, ...
The Information, Robotics, and Intelligent Systems Division (IRIS) of the National Science Foundation commissioned a workshop to provide a set of recommendations concerning: 1. Opportunities for...
Digital library: Gross structure and requirements: Report from a March 1994 workshop (1994)
Henry M. Gladney, Zahid Ahmed, Ron Ashany, Nicholas J. Belkin, Edward A. Fox, Maria Zemankova
Abstract: The overall workshop goals were: to define those digital library parameters which especially influence issues of access to, retrieval of, and interaction with information; to identify key...
Research Priorities For The World-Wide Web (1994)
Robert C. Berwick, John M. Carroll, Chris Connolly, Edward A. Fox, Tomasz Imielinski, V. S. Subrahmanian, ...
This report is available on-line via: <URL:http://www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/nsf-ws/report/Report.html> Prepared by
Combination of Multiple Searches (1994)
The TREC-3 project at Virginia Tech focused on methods for combining the evidence from multiple retrieval runs and queries to improve retrieval performance over any single retrieval method or query....
Introduction and Overview (1993)
This paper provides a partial overview of practice, problems, proposals, and plans relating to the handling of 'composite documents ' by extended information storage and retrieval sys-tems....
A faster algorithm for constructing minimal perfect hash functions (1992)
Edward A. Fox, Qi Fan Chen, Lenwood S. Heath
Our previous research on one-probe access to large collec-tions of data indexed by alphanumeric keys has produced the first practical minimal perfect hash functions for this prob-lem. Here, a new...
Order preserving minimal perfect hash functions and information retrieval (1991)
Edward A. Fox, Qi Fan, Chen Amjad, M. Daoud, Lenwood S. Heath
Rapid access to information is essential for a wide variety of retrieval systems and applications. Hashing has long been used when the fastest possible direct search is desired, but is generally not...
Building a Lexicon from Machine-Readable Dictionaries for Improved Information Retrieval1 (1990)
NUTTER, J. TERRY, FOX, EDWARD A., EVENS, MARTHA W.
Information retrieval systems have a tremendous potential for contributing to research in virtually all areas To date, this potential has not been fully realized, largely because of problems with...
Coder Lexicon: The Collins English Dictionary and its Adverb Definitions (1986)
Edward A. Fox, Robert C. Wohlwend, Phyllis R. Sheldon, Qi Fan Chen, Robert K. France
The CODER (COmposite Document Expert/extended/effective Retrieval) project is an investigation of the applicability of artificial intelligence techniques to the information retrieval task of...
Some Considerations for Implementing the SMART Information Retrieval System Under UNIX (1983)
Since the early 1960's the SMART project has tested out new ideas in information science aimed at fully automatic document retrieval. Beginning in 1980 development of an enhanced and generalized...
Two new collections are described which are particularly useful for investigating the interaction between textual and bibliographic data in the automatic indexing and retrieval of documents. An...
Some Considerations for Implementing the SMART Information Retrieval System Under UNIX (1983)
Since the early 1960's the SMART project has tested out new ideas in information science aimed at fully automatic document retrieval. Beginning in 1980 development of an enhanced and generalized...
Two new collections are described which are particularly useful for investigating the interaction between textual and bibliographic data in the automatic indexing and retrieval of documents. An...
Advanced Feedback Methods in Information Retrieval (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Voorhees, Ellen M.
Automatic feedback methods may be used in on-line information retrieval to generate improved query statements based on information contained in previously retrieved documents. In this study automatic...
Advanced Feedback Methods in Information Retrieval (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Voorhees, Ellen M.
Automatic feedback methods may be used in on-line information retrieval to generate improved query statements based on information contained in previously retrieved documents. In this study automatic...
A Comparison of Two Methods for Boolean Query Relevance Feedback (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Voorhees, Ellen M.
The relevance feedback process uses information derived from an initially retrieved set of documents to improve subsequent search formulations and retrieval output. In a Boolean query environment...
A Comparison of Two Methods for Boolean Query Relevance Feedback (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Voorhees, Ellen M.
The relevance feedback process uses information derived from an initially retrieved set of documents to improve subsequent search formulations and retrieval output. In a Boolean query environment...
Boolean Query Formulation with Relevance Feedback (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Buckley, Chris, Voorhees, Ellen M.
The well-known relevance feedback process uses information extracted from previously retrieved relevant documents to generate improved search formulations for subsequent search iterations. Methods...
Boolean Query Formulation with Relevance Feedback (1983)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Buckley, Chris, Voorhees, Ellen M.
The well-known relevance feedback process uses information extracted from previously retrieved relevant documents to generate improved search formulations for subsequent search iterations. Methods...
Automatic Query Formulations in Information Retrieval (1982)
Salton, Gerard, Buckley, Chris, Fox, Edward A.
Modern information retrieval systems are designed to supply relevant information in response to requests received from the user population. In most retrieval environments the search requests consist...
Automatic Query Formulations in Information Retrieval (1982)
Salton, Gerard, Buckley, Chris, Fox, Edward A.
Modern information retrieval systems are designed to supply relevant information in response to requests received from the user population. In most retrieval environments the search requests consist...
Extended Boolean Information Retrieval (1982)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Wu, Harry
In conventional information retrieval Boolean combinations of index terms are used to formulate the users' information requests. While any document is in principle retrievable by a Boolean query, the...
Extended Boolean Information Retrieval (1982)
Salton, Gerard, Fox, Edward A., Wu, Harry
In conventional information retrieval Boolean combinations of index terms are used to formulate the users' information requests. While any document is in principle retrievable by a Boolean query, the...
Privacy and Security in Highly Dynamic Systems (0000)
The article focuses on evolution of digital libraries with change in technology and also illustrate the variety of available and potential applications. Building digital libraries involves the...
Toward a Worldwide Digital Library. (0000)
In this article, the authors put together a collection of authors, who give a glimpse of Digital Libraries projects reflecting the needs of their countries. There are pieces analyzing the challenges...
BUILDING A LARGE THESAURUS FOR INFORMATION RETRIEVAL
Edward A. Fox, J. Terry Nutter, Thomas Ahlswede, Martha Evens, Judith Markowitz
Joukov, Vladimir, Chen, Junjie, Fox, Edward A., Green, Jeremy B. A., Livingston, David M.
The breast and ovarian susceptibility protein 1 (BRCA1) heterodimerizes with its structural relative, the BRCA1-associated RING domain protein (BARD1), which may have tumor suppressing function in...
Genomic mapping of RNA polymerase II reveals sites of co-transcriptional regulation in human cells
Brodsky, Alexander S, Meyer, Clifford A, Swinburne, Ian A, Hall, Giles, Keenan, Benjamin J, Liu, Xiaole S, ...
Determination of the distribution of RNA Polymerase II within regions of the human genome identifies novel sites of transcription and suggests that a major factor of transcription elongation control...
Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Unpaired Tumors Using High-Density Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays
Beroukhim, Rameen, Lin, Ming, Park, Yuhyun, Hao, Ke, Zhao, Xiaojun, Garraway, Levi A, ...
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...
Joukov, Vladimir, Chen, Junjie, Fox, Edward A., Green, Jeremy B. A., Livingston, David M.
The breast and ovarian susceptibility protein 1 (BRCA1) heterodimerizes with its structural relative, the BRCA1-associated RING domain protein (BARD1), which may have tumor suppressing function in...
Genomic mapping of RNA polymerase II reveals sites of co-transcriptional regulation in human cells
Brodsky, Alexander S, Meyer, Clifford A, Swinburne, Ian A, Hall, Giles, Keenan, Benjamin J, Liu, Xiaole S, ...
Determination of the distribution of RNA Polymerase II within regions of the human genome identifies novel sites of transcription and suggests that a major factor of transcription elongation control...
Inferring Loss-of-Heterozygosity from Unpaired Tumors Using High-Density Oligonucleotide SNP Arrays
Beroukhim, Rameen, Lin, Ming, Park, Yuhyun, Hao, Ke, Zhao, Xiaojun, Garraway, Levi A, ...
Loss of heterozygosity (LOH) of chromosomal regions bearing tumor suppressors is a key event in the evolution of epithelial and mesenchymal tumors. Identification of these regions usually relies on...
Genome-Wide Analysis of Neuroblastomas using High-Density Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Arrays
George, Rani E., Attiyeh, Edward F., Li, Shuli, Moreau, Lisa A., Neuberg, Donna, Li, Cheng, ...
Romero, Viviana, Larsen, Charles E, Duke-Cohan, Jonathan S, Fox, Edward A, Romero, Tatiana, Clavijo, Olga P, ...
Privacy and Security in Highly Dynamic Systems
The article focuses on evolution of digital libraries with change in technology and also illustrate the variety of available and potential applications. Building digital libraries involves the...
Toward a Worldwide Digital Library.
In this article, the authors put together a collection of authors, who give a glimpse of Digital Libraries projects reflecting the needs of their countries. There are pieces analyzing the challenges...
Exon expression profiling reveals stimulus-mediated exon use in neural cells
McKee, Adrienne E, Neretti, Nicola, Carvalho, Luis E, Meyer, Clifford A, Fox, Edward A, Brodsky, Alexander S, ...
Exon centric microarrays were used to resolve the calcium-modulated gene expression response into transcript-level an exon-level regulation.
Hatjiharissi, Evdoxia, Xu, Lian, Santos, Daniel Ditzel, Hunter, Zachary R., Ciccarelli, Bryan T., Verselis, Sigitas, ...
The presence of valine (V) at position 158 of FcγRllla (CD16) is known to improve clinical response to rituximab in indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL). Little is known about the basic mechanisms...