A popular theory of markets is that they are efficient: all available information is deemed to provide an accurate valuation of an asset at any time. In this paper, we consider ho...
New standards in document representation, like for example SGML, XML, and MPEG-7, compel Information Retrieval to design and implement models and tools to index, retrieve and prese...
Fabio Crestani, Luis M. de Campos, Juan M. Fern&aa...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
This paper presents an architecture and a methodology for agent-based Web service discovery and automated composition. We assume that Web services are described with declarative sp...
The paper discusses some innovative aspects related to the integration of a framework based on Answer Set Programming in an Information Retrieval Agent, namely, the Global Search A...
Giovambattista Ianni, Francesco Calimeri, Vincenzi...