We develop an abstract model of information acquisition from redundant data. We assume a random sampling process from data which contain information with bias and are interested in...
—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...
The Social Web is successfully established and poised for continued growth. Web 2.0 applications such as blogs, bookmarking, music, photo and video sharing systems are among the m...
Avare Stewart, Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl...
Application integration is a major trend in information technology today. In this paper we present a number of principles for the design, validation and presentation of process mod...
Identity federation is a powerful scheme that links accounts of users maintained distinctly by different business partners. The concept of network identity is a driver for accele...