Querying and searching the Web is an important research field which has drawn a number of concepts from databases and information retrieval fields, but has added its own models, ...
The coalition formation process, in which a number of independent, autonomous agents come together to act as a collective, is an important form of interaction in multiagent system...
In this paper we study the node distribution of an Rtree storing region data, like for instance islands, lakes or human-inhabited areas. We will show that real region datasets are...
Whereas search engines assist users in locating initial information sources, often an overwhelmingly large number of ULRs is returned, and the task of browsing websites rests heavi...
We describe a new framework for building a system that consists of tools and services for supporting Cyberinfrastructure based scientific research. This system, called the Semanti...
Geoffrey Fox, Ahmet Fatih Mustacoglu, Ahmet E. Top...