Information retrieval techniques have to face both the growing amount of data to be processed and the "natural" distribution of these data over the network. Hence, we in...
Today, information integration has assumed a completely different, complex connotation than what it used to be. The advent of the Internet, the proliferation of information source...
Abstract. In the Web environment, rich, diverse sources of heterogeneous and distributed data are ubiquitous. In fact, even the information characterizing a single entity - like, f...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
Digital libraries are more and more available on the web. However, retrieving information in these libraries is not easy because of sources heterogeneity and distribution. Thus, w...
As design complexities increase exponentially, automotive designers need integrated tool environments enabling system-level analyses of alternative architectural solutions. Hence,...
Paolo Giusto, Sri Kanajan, Claudio Pinello, Max Ch...