When a database query has a large number of results, the user can only be shown one page of results at a time. One popular approach is to rank results such that the "best&quo...
Service composition concerns both integration of heterogeneous distributed applications and dynamic selection of services. QoS-aware selection enables a service requester with cer...
Davide Bacciu, Maria Grazia Buscemi, Lusine Mkrtch...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...
Social tagging is becoming increasingly popular in many Web 2.0 applications where users can annotate resources (e.g. Web pages) with arbitrary keywords (i.e. tags). A tag recomme...
Ziyu Guan, Jiajun Bu, Qiaozhu Mei, Chun Chen, Can ...
Current trust models enable decision support at an implicit level by means of thresholds or constraint satisfiability. Decision support is mostly included only for a single binary...