A web search with double checking model is proposed to explore the web as a live corpus. Five association measures including variants of Dice, Overlap Ratio, Jaccard, and Cosine, ...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
The current evolution of Information Technology leads to the increase of automatic data processing over multiple information systems. The data we deal with concerns sensitive infor...
Flexible workflow systems are needed for processes that need consistency as well as flexibility (e.g., personalized client interactions). A methodology for designing flexible serv...
The extension of Regular Expressions (REs) with an interleaving (shuffle) operator has been proposed in many occasions, since it would be crucial to deal with unordered data. Howe...