Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...
This paper introduces the notion of temporally constrained ranked retrieval, which, given a query and a time constraint, produces the best possible ranked list within the specifi...
: This paper analyses aspects about the recommendation process in distributed information systems. It extracts similarities and differences between recommendations in estores and t...
Mobile devices make ideal personal ambient information systems given their ubiquitous adoption by users and their rich context knowledge of users’ activity. However, we believe ...
Usually, a Digital Library (DL) is an information resource where users may submit queries to satisfy their daily information need. The CYCLADES system envisages a DL additionally a...