Web information is increasingly used as evidence in solving various problems, including record matching. However, acquiring web-based resources is slow and can incur other access c...
Mobile terminals (cellular phones, PDAs, palmtops etc.) emerge as a new class of small-scale, ad-hoc service providers that share data and functionality via mobile web services’...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
Personalization is a powerful mechanism that helps users to cope with the abundance of information on the Web. Database query personalization achieves this by dynamically construc...