A great deal of work has been carried out in recent years to facilitate access to data and information available on the Web. Proposals converge in two additional areas which consis...
Providing accurate personalized information services to the users requires knowing their interests and needs, as defined by their User Models (UMs). Since the quality of the person...
Shlomo Berkovsky, Dan Goldwasser, Tsvi Kuflik, Fra...
Audio podcasting is increasingly present in the educational field and is especially appreciated as an ubiquitous/pervasive tool ("anywhere, anytime, at any pace") for ac...
Giulio Mori, Maria Claudia Buzzi, Marina Buzzi, Ba...
This paper uncovers a new phenomenon in web search that we call domain bias — a user’s propensity to believe that a page is more relevant just because it comes from a particul...
Samuel Ieong, Nina Mishra, Eldar Sadikov, Li Zhang
Abstract. The Service Oriented Architecture paradigm, and its implementation based on Web Services, have been the object of an intense research and standardization activity. One of...
Federico Chesani, Paola Mello, Marco Montali, Paol...