Software systems of today are characterized by the increasing size, complexity, distribution and heterogeneity. Understanding and supporting the interaction between software requir...
In this paper we describe a model of social and collaborative search based on the use of tags. First we will introduce the issues that drove us to the definition of this model, an...
This paper presents an Internet-Based Medical Archive System, thus called IBMAS. IBMAS is a prototype system of a proposed paradigm of research aiming at building up a distributed...
Zhongfei (Mark) Zhang, Guangbiao Pu, Andrzej Kr&oa...
Cloud computing has emerged as a promising environment capable of providing flexibility, scalability, elasticity, failover mechanisms, high availability, and other important feat...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...