Abstract. Dealing with heterogeneous ontologies by means of semantic mappings has become an important area of research and a number of systems for discovering mappings between onto...
Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...
Abstract. A major challenge in pervasive computing is to learn activity patterns, such as bathing and cleaning from sensor data. Typical sensor deployments generate sparse datasets...
Although PageRank has been designed to estimate the popularity of Web pages, it is a general algorithm that can be applied to the analysis of other graphs other than one of hypert...
This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...