A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
Cultural heritage documentation induces the use of computerized techniques to manage and preserve the information produced. Geographical information systems have proved their pote...
Anne Durand, Pierre Drap, Elise Meyer, Pierre Grus...
In this paper, we describe MySearchView ? a system for assembling search engines into metasearch engines. With this system, any user can create a metasearch engine by simply letti...
This paper presents an approach for building consensus ontologies from the individual ontologies of a network of socially interacting agents. Each agent has its own conceptualizat...
Algorithms that enable the process of automatically mining distinct topics in document collections have become increasingly important due to their applications in many fields and ...