We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
With the ever-increasing growth of data and information, finding the right knowledge becomes a real challenge and an urgent task. Traditional data and information retrieval syste...
Among the most important expected benefits of a global service oriented architecture leveraging web service standards is an increased level of automation in the discovery, composit...
Sergey A. Stupnikov, Leonid A. Kalinichenko, St&ea...
As broadband access to the Internet becomes pervasive, the need for a 24 hours a day, seven days a week (24x7) interface within the client devices, requires a level of sophisticati...
As web information systems tend to mature it has become increasingly important to have an engineered design of such systems. Hera is a design methodology that supports the develop...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, ...