Web communities involve networks of loosely coupled data sources. Members in those communities should be able to pose queries and gather results from all data sources in the networ...
Current approaches for answering queries with imprecise constraints require users to provide distance metrics and importance measures for attributes of interest. In this paper we ...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...
Despite many years of ubiquitous computing (ubicomp) middleware research, deployment of such systems has not been widespread. We suggest this is in part because we lack a shared mo...
We present an approach to the discovery of semantically similar terms that utilizes a web search engine as both a source for generating related terms and a tool for estimating the...