In this poster we introduce ProThes, a pilot meta-search engine (MSE) for a specific application domain. ProThes combines three approaches: meta-search, graphical user interface (...
In today's Web, many functionality-wise similar Web services are offered through heterogeneous interfaces (operation definitions) and business protocols (ordering constraints...
Hamid R. Motahari Nezhad, Boualem Benatallah, Axel...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
Understanding the characteristics of the users’ workload is an important aspect when designing and providing web services. The majority of current workload characterization tech...
In a highly mobile and active society, ubiquitous access to information and services is a general desire. The context of users is of high importance for an application to adapt aut...