In a digital library, there are many di erent interaction models between customers and information providers or merchants. Subscriptions, sessions, pay-per-view, shareware, and pr...
Steven P. Ketchpel, Hector Garcia-Molina, Andreas ...
In a federated digital library system, it is too expensive to query every accessible library. Resource selection is the task to decide to which libraries a query should be routed. ...
POMDPs are a popular framework for representing decision making problems that contain uncertainty. The high computational complexity of finding exact solutions to POMDPs has spaw...
I report briefly on some of my own work in each of these areas and elucidate some of the questions that this research has raised. Then I propose as a research agenda the developme...
This paper describes how to make use of e-books that look like printed books in a knowledge network. After an overview of digitalization efforts and current digital library initia...