In Autonomic Computing, an application needs to be aware of its environment. While the term "environment" is not normally understood as being a physical environment, in ...
People display regularities in almost everything they do. This paper proposes characteristics of an idealized algorithm that would allow an automatic extraction of web user profil ...
Younes Hafri, Chabane Djeraba, Peter L. Stanchev, ...
Large-scale ontologies are becoming an essential component of many applications including standard search (such as Yahoo and Lycos), ecommerce (such as Amazon and eBay), configura...
Deborah L. McGuinness, Richard Fikes, James Rice, ...
Collaborative Filtering systems are essentially social systems which base their recommendation on the judgment of a large number of people. However, like other social systems, the...
The WWW contains a huge amount of documents. Some of them share the subject, but are generated by different people or even organizations. To guarantee the interchange of such docu...