Recently the world of the web has become more social and more real-time. Facebook and Twitter are perhaps the exemplars of a new generation of social, real-time web services and w...
We assess a family of ranking mechanisms for search engines based on linkage analysis using a carefully engineered subset of the World Wide Web, WT10g (Bailey, Craswell and Hawking...
The MPEG-7 standard provides description mechanisms and taxonomy management for multimedia documents. There are several approaches to design a multimedia database system using MPE...
In this paper some research trends are presented concerning the application of fuzzy techniques to model flexible systems for the access to information on the WWW. The focus is o...
Abstract When searching for information about historical events, queries are naturally formulated using temporal constraints. However, the structured temporal information needed to...
Steven Schockaert, Martine De Cock, Etienne E. Ker...