Every distributed system that employs linking requires a Reference Resolution Service (RRS) to convert link references to locations. We argue that the Web’s use of DNS for this ...
In this paper we consider the problem of eCommerce comparison shopping agents (shopbots) that are limited by capacity constraints. In light of the phenomenal increase both in dema...
Optimization of execution plans in information mediators is a critical task, specially when sources are remote and semistructured, as in the case of transactional web sites. Lack ...
Modern scientific computing involves organizing, moving, visualizing, and analyzing massive amounts of data from around the world, as well as employing largescale computation. The...
With the increased usage of the Web and its availability of data, various scholarly information is now available on the Web. Extraction, aggregation, and visualization of such inf...