Nowadays, as there is an increasing need to integrate the DBMS (for structured data) with Information Retrieval (IR) features (for unstructured data), DB-IR integration becomes one...
Large-scale distributed data management with P2P systems requires the existence of similarity operators for queries as we cannot assume that all users will agree on exactly the sa...
By the end of this year visitors to the Flemish town of Mechelen can discover the city with the help of the new CityInMyPocket walking guide. Instead of following a person or a bo...
Most human activities occur around where the user is physically located. Knowing the geographical serving area of web resources, therefore, is very important for many web applicat...
Qi Zhang, Xing Xie, Lee Wang, Lihua Yue, Wei-Ying ...
In this paper, we identify and analyze structural properties which reflect the functionality of a Web site. These structural properties consider the size, the organization, the co...