The performance of web search engines may often deteriorate due to the diversity and noisy information contained within web pages. User click-through data can be used to introduce...
Web-based search engines such as Google and NorthernLight return documents that are relevant to a user query, not answers to user questions. We have developed an architecture that...
Dragomir R. Radev, Weiguo Fan, Hong Qi, Harris Wu,...
Web services are open, interoperable, easy to integrate and reuse, and are extensively used in many application domains. Research and best practices have produced excellent support...
Leen Lambers, Leonardo Mariani, Hartmut Ehrig, Mau...
In Ubiquitous computing small embedded sensor and computing nodes are the main enabling technologies. System programming for such small embedded systems is a challenging task invol...
At the present time, several shortcomings prevent the more effective use and more intense application of web information systems. Recent developments that are subsumed by the term...