The rapid advances in computer and communication technologies, and their merger, is leading to a global information market place. It will consist of federations of very large numb...
Information in today’s enterprises commonly resides in a variety of heterogeneous data sources, including relational databases, web services, files, packaged applications, and c...
We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those ga...
A query considered in isolation offers limited information about a searcher's intent. Query context that considers pre-query activity (e.g., previous queries and page visits)...
Though skyline queries already have claimed their place in retrieval over central databases, their application in Web information systems up to now was impossible due to the distri...