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Crowdsourcing is a new Web phenomenon, in which a firm takes a function once performed in-house and outsources it to a crowd, usually in the form of an open contest. Designing ef...
Semantic integration in the hidden Web is an emerging area of research where traditional assumptions do not always hold. Frequent changes, conflicts and the sheer size of the hid...