Service discovery employs matching techniques to select services by comparing their descriptions against user constraints. Semantic-based matching approaches achieve higher recall...
Abstract—Tiny, wireless, sensors embedded in a large number of Internet-capable devices–smart phones, cameras, cars, toys, medical instruments, home appliances and energy meter...
We present a gateway between the WWW and the Gnutella peer-topeer network that permits searchers on one side to be able to search and retrieve files on the other side of the gatew...
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...
Annotations are an important part in today’s digital libraries and Web information systems as an instrument for interactive knowledge creation. Annotation-based document retrieva...