World Wide Web search engines typically return thousands of results to the users. To avoid users browsing through the whole list of results, search engines use ranking algorithms ...
Web service development and usage has shifted from simple information processing services to high-value business services that are crucial to productivity and success. In order to...
In this paper, we consider the competition of providers of information products against P2P networks that offer illegal versions of the information products. Depending on the gene...
P. Jean-Jacques Herings, Ronald Peeters, Michael S...
This paper reports the participation of the XLDB Group from the University of Lisbon in the CLEF 2006 ad-hoc monolingual and bilingual subtasks for Portuguese. We present our IR s...
Many scientific, financial, data mining and sensor network applications need to work with continuous, rather than discrete data e.g., temperature as a function of location, or sto...