When an artifact is designed the typical output consists of documents describing the final result of a long series of deliberations and tradeoffs by the participants of collaborat...
In this paper we propose a new metaphor of information retrieving, usable in heritage management and publishing. Based on the net, the user is able to participate in virtual guide...
Dorin Mircea Popovici, Serge Morvan, Eric Maisel, ...
In this paper we present a scalable and distributed access structure for similarity search in metric spaces. The approach is based on the Content– addressable Network (CAN) parad...
The unarguably fast, and continuous, growth of the volume of indexed (and indexable) documents on the Web poses a great challenge for search engines. This is true regarding not on...
XML is fast becoming the standard format to store, exchange and publish over the web, and is getting embedded in applications. Two challenges in handling XML are its size (the XML...
Paolo Ferragina, Fabrizio Luccio, Giovanni Manzini...