Search trails comprising queries and Web page views are created as searchers engage in information-seeking activity online. During known-item search (where the objective may be to...
Structured documents contain elements defined by the author(s) and annotations assigned by other people or processes. Structured documents pose challenges for probabilistic retrie...
The Web contains a large amount of documents and increasingly, also semantic data in the form of RDF triples. Many of these triples are annotations that are associated with docume...
: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in many scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to...
Data outsourcing is emerging today as a successful solution for organizations looking for a cost-effective way to make their data available for on-line querying. To protect outsou...
Ernesto Damiani, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimercati,...