We research whether the inclusion of information about an information user's social environment and his position in the social network of his peers leads to an improval in sea...
Sebastian Marius Kirsch, Melanie Gnasa, Armin B. C...
New optimization techniques, e. g., in data stream management systems (DSMSs), make the treatment of disjunctive predicates a necessity. In this paper, we introduce and compare me...
Synchronous groupware applications support people collaborating in real time over a distance. The world wide web supports asynchronous collaboration by allowing people to share dis...
We will report on one of the two tasks in the IREX (Information Retrieval and Extraction Exercise) project, an evaluation-based project for Information Retrieval and Information E...
The information access and retrieval capabilities provided by several conventional search engines, while improving upon traditional techniques, are lacking in supporting conceptua...