Ontologies are a well-motivated formal representation to model knowledge needed to extract and encode data from text. Yet, their tight integration with Information Extraction (IE)...
Peer-to-peer grids aim to build computational grids encompassing thousands of sites. To achieve this scale, such systems cannot rely on trust or off-line negotiations among partic...
Miranda Mowbray, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Nazar...
A wireless sensor network deployment on a glacier in Iceland is described. The system uses power management as well as power harvesting to provide long-term environment sensing. Ad...
The need for incorporating preference querying in database technology is a very important issue in a variety of applications ranging from e-commerce to personalized search engines....
This work presents a case of an innovative Brazilian experience of use of free software in public administration as an emergent ecosystem, and the attempt to establish a quality f...