Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciïŹc search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userâ...
Purpose â Web search engines are frequently used by people to locate information on the Internet. However, not all queries have an informational goal. Instead of information, so...
Ashish Kathuria, Bernard J. Jansen, Carolyn Hafern...
In e-commerce, for some cases the service requested by the consumer cannot be fulfilled by the producer. In such cases, service consumers and producers need to negotiate their ser...
AbstractâTiny, wireless, sensors embedded in a large number of Internet-capable devicesâsmart phones, cameras, cars, toys, medical instruments, home appliances and energy meter...
Significant efforts are currently invested in application integration to enable the interaction and composition of business processes of different companies, yielding complex, mul...
Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, R...