With the increasing use of the internet, many problemsolving tasks such as resource allocation, scheduling, planning, and configuration pose themselves in an open setting involvi...
Abstract. XML provides a natural mechanism for representing semistructured and unstructured data. It becomes the basis for encoding a large variety of information, for example, the...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
Scientific articles are tailored to present information in human-readable aliquots. Although the Internet has revolutionized the way our society thinks about information, the trad...
A geographic search request contains a query consisting of one or more keywords, and a search-location that the user searches for. In this paper, we study the problem of discoveri...