Query reformulation modifies the original query with the aim of better matching the vocabulary of the relevant documents, and consequently improving ranking effectiveness. Previou...
Commitment management is a key issue in service-provisioning in the context of virtual organisations (VOs). A service-provider — which may be a single agent acting within an orga...
Recent work in deduplication has shown that collective deduplication of different attribute types can improve performance. But although these techniques cluster the attributes col...
We present an approach to spatial inference which is based on the procedural semantics of spatial relations. In contrast to qualitative reasoning, we do not use discrete symbolic m...
Sylvia Wiebrock, Lars Wittenburg, Ute Schmid, Frit...
The Web continues to grow at a tremendous rate. Search engines find it increasingly difficult to provide useful results. To manage this explosively large number of Web documents,...
Sandip Debnath, Tracy Mullen, Arun Upneja, C. Lee ...