Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
• This paper describes techniques for visualising pairs of similar trees. Our aim is to develop ways of presenting the information so as to highlight both the common structure of...
The increasing complexity of modern Information Services (IS) makes necessary to carry on review activities. For many companies, these reviews take place within the framework of t...
Jacques Simonin, Yves Le Traon, Jean-Marc Jé...
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Semantic Web Information Systems (SWIS) are Web Information Systems that use Semantic Web technologies. Hera is a modeldriven design methodology for SWIS. In Hera, models are repr...