Georgia Koutrika

Social Systems: Can We Do More Than Just Poke Friends? (2009)

Georgia Koutrika, Benjamin Bercovitz, Robert Ikeda, Filip Kaliszan, Henry Liou, Zahra Mohammadi, ...

Social sites have become extremely popular among users but have they attracted equal attention from the research community? Are they good only for simple tasks, such as tagging and poking friends? Do...

Social Systems: Can we Do More Than Just Poke Friends? (2009)

Koutrika, Georgia, Bercovitz, Benjamin, Ikeda, Robert, Kaliszan, Filip, Liou, Henry, Zadeh, Zahra Mohammadi, ...

Social sites have become extremely popular among users but have they attracted equal attention from the research community? Are they good only for simple tasks, such as tagging and poking friends? Do...

Search and Retrieval—Retrieval models, Search process (2009)

Konstantinos Morfonios, Georgia Koutrika

The advent of social bookmarking has signaled a new era towards a more “pluralistic ” web, where entities of multiple types (e.g., users, resources, tags) can coexist and get interconnected. In...

An Enhanced Search Interface for Information Discovery from Digital Libraries (2008)

Georgia Koutrika, Alkis Simitsis

Abstract. Libraries, museums, and other organizations make their electronic contents available to a growing number of users on the Web. A large fraction of the information published is stored in...

ABSTRACT Combating Spam in Tagging Systems (2008)

Georgia Koutrika, Frans Adjie Effendi, Zoltán Gyöngyi, Paul Heymann, Hector Garcia-molina

Tagging systems allow users to interactively annotate a pool of shared resources using descriptive tags. As tagging systems are gaining in popularity, they become more susceptible to tag spam:...

Setting the Foundations of Digital Libraries: The DELOS Manifesto (2007)

Pagano, Pasquale, Thano, Costantino, Ioannidis, Yannis, Koutrika, Georgia, Ross, Seamus, Schek, Hans-Jörg, ...

The term "Digital Libraries" corresponds to a very complex notion with several diverse aspects and cannot be captured by a simple definition. A robust model of Digital Libraries encapsulating the...

Personalization of Queries based on User Preferences (2006)

Koutrika, Georgia, Ioannidis, Yannis

Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The underlying idea is...

Java SUN developers Dev Journal: Top 10 Java guides (2005)

Yannis Ioannidis, Georgia Koutrika

docs Why personalization? During the last decade … Emergence of WWW and handheld electronic devices Information abundance User heterogeneity Human effort User-centered information access