Information retrieval systems have to deal with uncertain knowledge and query results should reflect this uncertainty in some manner. However, Semantic Web ontologies are based on...
Caching is an important technique to support pervasive Internet access. Cache consistency measures the deviation between the cached data and the source data. In mobile computing e...
Situational awareness (SA) applications monitor the real world and the entities therein to support tasks such as rapid decision making, reasoning, and analysis. Raw input about unf...
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
Abstract. RDF may be considered as an application of XML intended to interoperably exchange semantics between Web applications. In its current form, this objective may be hard to r...