Searching for medical information on the Web is highly popular these days. To facilitate ordinary people to perform medical search and preliminary disease self-diagnosis, we have ...
This paper describes the technical details of SemRetriev, a prototype system for image retrieval which combines the use of an ontology which structures an image repository and of ...
This paper presents a statistical model for expressing preferences through rankings, when the number of alternatives (items to rank) is large. A human ranker will then typically r...
Incremental view maintenance has found a growing number of applications recently, including data warehousing, continuous query processing, publish/subscribe systems, etc. Batch pr...
Web services are designed to standardize interactions between heterogeneous applications using Internet technologies. Within the framework of Internet search technologies, Web ser...