With the growth of the Web, there has been a rapid increase in the number of users who need to access online databases without having a detailed knowledge of the schema or of quer...
We propose a novel iterative searching and refining prototype for tagged images. This prototype, named PivotBrowser, captures semantically similar tag sets in a structure called p...
Xiaoyan Li, Lidan Shou, Gang Chen, Xiaolong Zhang,...
This paper describes a kernel based Web Services (abbreviated as service) matching mechanism for service discovery and integration. The matching mechanism tries to exploit the lat...
Yu Jianjun, Guo Shengmin, Su Hao, Zhang Hui, Xu Ke
In multi-issue negotiations, autonomous agents can act cooperatively to benefit from mutually preferred agreements. However, empirical evidence suggests that they often fail to s...
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, ...