Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
Abstract. The original purpose of Web metadata was to protect endusers from possible harmful content and to simplify search and retrieval. However they can also be exploited in mor...
In this document, we describe a light-weighted ontology mediation method that allows users to send semantic queries to distant data repositories to browse for learning object meta...
— Multi-criteria decision support (MCDS) is crucial in many business and web applications such as web searches, B2B portals and on-line commerce. Such MCDS applications need to r...
Information about the opponent is essential to improve automated negotiation strategies for bilateral multiissue negotiation. In this paper we propose a negotiation strategy that e...
Koen V. Hindriks, Catholijn M. Jonker, Dmytro Tykh...