Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...
Data about everything is readily available on the web—but often only accessible through elaborate user interactions. For automated decision support, extracting that data is esse...
Andrew Jon Sellers, Tim Furche, Georg Gottlob, Gio...
In this paper, we describe the design and initial implementation of a geographic search engine prototype for Germany, based on a large crawl of the de domain. Geographic search en...
Alexander Markowetz, Yen-Yu Chen, Torsten Suel, Xi...
In order to provide database-like features for files, particularly for searching in Web data, one solution is to migrate file data into a relational database. Having stored the da...
Blogging, as a subset of the web as a whole, can benefit greatly from the addition of semantic metadata. The result -- which we will call Semantic Blogging -- provides improved cap...