In this paper, we propose an agent-centric approach to resource description and selection in a multiagent information retrieval (IR). In the multiagent system, each agent learns f...
In some information retrieval scenarios, for example internal help desk systems, texts are entered into the document collection without proofreading. This can result in a relative...
Histogram techniques have been used in many commercial database management systems to estimate a query result size. Recently, it has been shown that they are very effective to su...
: The biomedical literature is growing at an ever-increasing rate, which pronounces the need to support scientists with advanced, automated means of accessing knowledge. We investi...
We demonstrate an efficient LINQ to SQL provider and its significant impact on the runtime performance of LINQ programs that process large data volumes. This alternative provider...
Tom Schreiber, Simone Bonetti, Torsten Grust, Manu...