Electronic marketplaces can provide several types of business processes depending upon their target audience. A form of such processes is electronic auction. It is a system for ac...
The annotation of words and phrases by ontology concepts is extremely helpful for semantic interpretation. However many ontologies, e.g. WordNet, are too fine-grained and even hu...
Both semantic and type-based query optimization rely on the idea that queries often exhibit non-trivial rewritings if the state space of the database is restricted. Despite their ...
Michael Meier 0002, Michael Schmidt, Fang Wei, Geo...
This paper focuses on the optimization of the navigation through voluminous subsumption hierarchies of topics employed by Portal Catalogs like Netscape Open Directory (ODP). We ad...
With the growth of on-line information, the need for better resource location services is growing rapidly. A popular goal is to conduct search in terms of concepts, rather than wo...
Peter Clark, John Thompson, Heather Holmback, Lisb...