Modern servers access large volumes of data while running commercial workloads. The data is typically spread among several storage devices (e.g. disks). Carefully placing the data...
In order to increase retrieval precision, some new search engines provide manually verified answers to Frequently Asked Queries (FAQs). An underlying task is the identification of...
Scalability of reasoning systems is one of the main criteria which will determine the success of Semantic Web systems in the future. The focus of recent work is either on (a) expre...
Search engines are powerful tools to find information on the Web. However, they commonly return a lot of irrelevant documents when the users’ queries are not specific enough. To...
Most people have long term information interests. Current Web search engines satisfy immediate information needs. Specific sites support tracking of long term interests. We prese...