Qualitative temporal and spatial reasoning is in many cases based on binary relations such as before, after, starts, contains, contact, part of, and others derived from these by r...
Agent technology provides many services to users. The tasks in which agents are involved include information filtering, information retrieval, user's tasks automation, browsin...
Because of privacy concerns, agents may not want to reveal information that could be of use in problem solving. As a result, there are potentially important tradeoffs between main...
Abstract. Recommender systems face up to current information overload by selecting automatically items that match the personal preferences of each user. The so-called content-based...
Keyword search is a user-friendly mechanism for retrieving XML data in web and scientific applications. An intuitively compelling but vaguely defined goal is to identify matches t...