In the so-called Information-Explosion Era, astronomical amount of information is ubiquitously produced and digitally stored. It is getting more and more convenient for cooperative...
Recent technology advances have enabled mediated query processing with Internet accessible WebSources. A characteristic of WebSources is that their access costs exhibit transient ...
—The growing popularity of social media in recent years has resulted in the creation of an enormous amount of user-developed content. While information is readily available, ther...
For dynamic sales dialogs in electronic commerce scenarios, approaches based on an information gain measure used for attribute selection have been suggested. These measures conside...
Proxy caches have become a central mechanism for reducing the latency of web document retrieval. While caching alone reduces latency for previously requested documents, web docume...