Performance characteristics, such as response time, throughput and scalability, are key quality attributes of distributed applications. Current practice, however, rarely applies s...
Current search engines rely on centralized page ranking algorithms which compute page rank values as single (global) values for each Web page. Recent work on topic-sensitive PageRa...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Daniel Olmedilla, Wolfgang...
This paper describes an ontology for enterprise modelling, The ontology has enabled conceptual integration of two different modelling methodologies, one based on UEML (Unified Ente...
We study the representation, derivation and utilization of a special kind of constraints in multidatabase systems. A major challenge is when component database schemas are schemat...
It is crucial in many information systems to organize short text segments, such as keywords in documents and queries from users, into a well-formed topic hierarchy. In this paper,...