While the Semantic Web is rapidly filling up, appropriate tools for searching it are still at infancy. In this paper we describe an approach that allows humans to access informatio...
Data intensive applications, e.g. in life sciences, pose new efficiency challenges to the service composition problem. Since today computing power is mainly increased by multiplica...
Abstract-- When monitoring interactions within a social network, meetings or contacts between different members of the network are recorded. This paper addresses the problem of usi...
Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
Database applications and technologies are of central importance in many information systems a person may encounter. To obtain services, the end-users are required a smart card (pl...