Query expansion has been extensively studied as a technique for increasing information retrieval performance. However, due to the volume of documents available on the web, many of ...
Although OWL is rather expressive, it has a very serious limitation on datatypes; i.e., it does not support customised datatypes. It has been pointed out that many potential users...
The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years, making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler evident. In this paper, we de...
Practical description logic systems play an ever-growing role for knowledge representation and reasoning research even in distributed environments. In particular, the often-discus...
Enabling technology for realizing ad-hoc business processes currently is becoming more and more popular, like for example web services. Ad-hoc business processes are semantically c...