Web service paradigm and related technologies have provided favorable means for the realization of collaborative business processes. From both conceptual and implementation points...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
A major source of information (often the most crucial and informative part) in scholarly articles from scientific journals, proceedings and books are the figures that directly pro...
Amr Ahmed, Eric P. Xing, William W. Cohen, Robert ...
The Common Instrument Middleware Architecture (CIMA) project, supported by the NSF Middleware Initiative, aims at making scientific instruments and sensors remotely accessible by ...
Hao Yin, Donald F. McMullen, Mehmet A. Nacar, Marl...