In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...
During Spring 1998, we embarked on pedagogical journey into unknown terrains -- the terrains of collaborative teaching and World Wide Web instruction. In this paper we present a j...
An increasing number of databases are becoming Web accessible through form-based search interfaces, and many of these sources are database-driven E-commerce sites. It is a daunting...
: Web-based information sources have evolved to an essential element in our daily and professional life. To process this faster and faster growing amount of information, web portal...
Despite recent advances in trust relationship control mechanisms, issues remain that impede the development of effective trust models. One of these is the lack of dynamic mechanis...