Following and understanding discussions on mailing lists is a prevalent task for executives and policy makers in order to get an impression of one’s company image. However, exist...
The advent of social tagging systems has enabled a new community-based view of the Web in which objects like images, videos, and Web pages are annotated by thousands of users. Und...
Enabling an intelligent access to multimedia data requires a powerful description language. In this paper, we demonstrate why the MPEG-7 standard fails to fulfill this task. We i...
In open systems where the components, i.e. the agents and the resources, may be unknown at design time, or in dynamic and self-organizing systems evolving with time, there is a ne...
This paper focuses on the information management systems of the dynamic World Wide Web. Many individual web pages, such as news portals, provide periodic information and public an...