Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...
Abstract. Database preprocessing in order to create an index often permits considerable speedup in search compared to the iterated query of an unprocessed database. In this paper w...
This paper extends an adaptive discretization method, Spliton-Demand (SoD), to be capable of handling multidimensional continuous search spaces. The proposed extension is called m...
Distributed Constraints Optimization (DCOP) is a powerful framework for representing and solving distributed combinatorial problems, where the variables of the problem are owned b...
Alon Grubshtein, Roie Zivan, Tal Grinshpoun, Amnon...
In commerce search, the set of products returned by a search engine often forms the basis for all user interactions leading up to a potential transaction on the web. Such a set of...