In outsourced database (ODB) systems the database owner publishes its data through a number of remote servers, with the goal of enabling clients at the edge of the network to acce...
Feifei Li, Marios Hadjieleftheriou, George Kollios...
An action research project in the state administration of Schleswig-Holstein (Germany) seeks to answer the following questions: How can we organize and present edocuments so that ...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Automatic service composition is an active research area in the field of service computing. This paper presents a distributed approach to automatically discover a composition of s...
Relevance feedback, which traditionally uses the terms in the relevant documents to enrich the user's initial query, is an effective method for improving retrieval performanc...