MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
Abstract. As a consequence of the success of the Web, methodologies for information system development need to consider systems that use the Web paradigm. These Web Information Sys...
Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, Flavius Frasincar, ...
In order to minimize redundancy and optimize coverage of multiple user interests, search engines and recommender systems aim to diversify their set of results. To date, these dive...
Due to resource constraints, search engines usually have difficulties keeping the local database completely synchronized with the Web. To detect as many changes as possible, the ...
Qingzhao Tan, Ziming Zhuang, Prasenjit Mitra, C. L...
Information Retrieval (IR) is a major component in many of our daily activities, with perhaps its most prominent role manifested in search engines. Today’s most advanced engines...