As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...
The development of the RDF[2] standard highlights the fact that a great deal of useful information is in the form of semistructured data--objects connected by relations fitting no...
Agile development processes and component-based software architectures are two software engineering approaches that contribute to enable the rapid building and evolution of applic...
Search engines are among the most important applications or services on the web. Most existing successful search engines use global ranking algorithms to generate the ranking of do...
Abstract. This paper describes an approach to providing object persistence in object-oriented programming languages without modifying the run-time system or the language itself. By...