: Search is probably the most frequent activity on the Web. Yet it is not effortless, mainly due to heterogeneous information resources. Semantic search is a means to tackle the pr...
WS-Policy is a standard to express requirements and capabilities in Web service systems. Policies are based on domain-specific assertions. In this paper we present a lightweight ap...
A common challenge in the development of web applications today lies in the handling of unforeseen navigation steps initiated by the user through the browser's Back, Forward ...
This paper presents Prospector, an adaptive meta-search layer, which performs personalized re-ordering of search results. Prospector combines elements from two approaches to adapti...
In the context of web search engines, the escalation between ranking techniques and spamdexing techniques has led to the appearance of faked contents in web pages. If random sequen...