As more and more Web services are deployed, Web service’s discovery mechanisms become essential. Similar services can have quite different QoS behaviors. For service selection ...
In the current Web, e-document has been the most common vehicle for delivering and exchanging information. As the amount of e-documents has grown enormously, effective classificati...
The demand for ontologies is rapidly growing especially due to developments in knowledge management, E-commerce and the Semantic Web. Building an ontology and a background knowled...
Pervasive services may be defined as services that are available to any client (anytime, anywhere). Here we focus on the software and network infrastructure required to support pe...
Graham N. C. Kirby, Alan Dearle, Ronald Morrison, ...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with these...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...