Increasingly, manufacturing companies are shifting their focus from selling products to providing services. As a result, when designing new products, engineers must increasingly c...
Data-Providing (DP) services allow query-like access to organizations' data via web services. The invocation of a DP service results in the execution of a query over data sour...
Two important architectural choices underlie the success of the Web: numerous, independently operated servers speak a common protocol, and a single type of client--the Web browser...
Conventionally, Web pages have been recognized as documents described by HTML. Image data, such as photographs, logos, maps, illustrations, and decorated text, have been treated a...
A critical problem in developing information agents for the Web is accessing data that is formatted for human use. We have developed a set of tools for extracting data from web si...
Craig A. Knoblock, Kristina Lerman, Steven Minton,...