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WEBDB
2005
Springer
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15 years 12 months ago
iFuice - Information Fusion utilizing Instance Correspondences and Peer Mappings
We present a new approach to information fusion of web data sources. It is based on peer-to-peer mappings between sources and utilizes correspondences between their instances. Suc...
Erhard Rahm, Andreas Thor, David Aumueller, Hong H...
CAISE
2004
Springer
15 years 12 months ago
Information Modeling and Higher-order Types
: While some information modeling approaches (e.g. the Relational Model, and Object-Role Modeling) are typically formalized using first-order logic, other approaches to information...
Terry A. Halpin
CIKM
1999
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Architecture of a Metasearch Engine That Supports User Information Needs
When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and ho...
Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, William P. Birming...
CAE
2007
15 years 9 months ago
An Information-Theoretic Ambient Occlusion
Ambient occlusion is a powerful technique that mimics indirect global illumination at a fraction of the cost. In this paper, we introduce a new ambient occlusion technique based o...
Francisco González, Mateu Sbert, Miquel Fei...
ICWSM
2008
15 years 8 months ago
Understanding the Efficiency of Social Tagging Systems using Information Theory
Given the rise in popularity of social tagging systems, it seems only natural to ask how efficient is the organically evolved tagging vocabulary in describing underlying document ...
Ed H. Chi, Todd Mytkowicz