This paper attempts to articulate the general role of infrastructure for multi-agent systems (MAS), and why infrastructure is a particularly critical issue if we are to increase th...
Entity information management (EIM) is a nascent IR research area that investigates the information management process about entities instead of documents. It is motivated by the ...
Conversation is an essential component of social behavior, one of the primary means by which humans express intentions, beliefs, emotions, attitudes and personality. Thus the deve...
The definition of “boundary” in the context of multiorganizational information sharing and integration initiatives is developed in the paper. Both current literature and a cas...
Lei Zheng, Tung-Mou Yang, Theresa A. Pardo, Yuanfu...
Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...