In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Dwell time on Web pages has been extensively used for various information retrieval tasks. However, some basic yet important questions have not been sufficiently addressed, e.g., ...
Ownership types characterize the topology of objects in the heap, through a characterization of the context to which an object belongs. They have been used to support reasoning, me...
Abstract. Workflow management systems (WFMS) coordinate execution of multiple tasks performed by different entities within an organization. In order to coordinate the execution of ...
Nowadays, cross-lingual Information Retrieval (IR) is one of the greatest challenges to deal with. Besides, one of the most important issues in IR consists in the corpus vocabular...