Agent technology provides many services to users. The tasks in which agents are involved include information filtering, information retrieval, user's tasks automation, browsin...
Speculative service implies that a client's request for a document is serviced by sending, in addition to the document requested, a number of other documents (or pointers the...
The World Wide Web (Web) is a visually complex, dynamic, multimedia system that can be inaccessible to people with visual impairments. SADIe addresses this problem by using Semant...
E-mails concerning the development issues of a system constitute an important source of information about high-level design decisions, low-level implementation concerns, and the s...
Many of the recently proposed algorithms for learning feature-based ranking functions are based on the pairwise preference framework, in which instead of taking documents in isola...
Vitor R. Carvalho, Jonathan L. Elsas, William W. C...