Linked or networked data are ubiquitous in many applications. Examples include web data or hypertext documents connected via hyperlinks, social networks or user profiles connected...
Jing Gao, Feng Liang, Wei Fan, Chi Wang, Yizhou Su...
The gap between the user's information need and query is expanding due to the pervasiveness of Web search. Multimedia question answering is restricted by disjoint infrastruct...
A user’s informational need and preferences can be modeled by criteria, which in turn can be used to prioritize candidate results and produce a ranked list. We examine the use of...
In this paper we describe resource and service discovery mechanisms available in iGrid, a novel Grid Information Service based on the relational model. iGrid is developed within th...
Giovanni Aloisio, Massimo Cafaro, Italo Epicoco, S...
This paper investigates the use of fuzzy logic mechanisms coming from the database community, namely graded inclusions, to model the information retrieval process. In this framewor...
Patrick Bosc, Vincent Claveau, Olivier Pivert, Lau...