act— Web alerts are user-defined monitor conditions for public Internet information in which notification messages are sent to users whenever their alert conditions are met. The ...
Most casual users of IR systems type short queries. Recent research has shown that adding new words to these queries via adhoc feedback improves the retrieval e ectiveness of such ...
The mobile devices have gained much functionality and intelligence with the growth of network technologies, the abundance of network resources, and the increase of various services...
Recently, schema mapping has found considerable interest in both research and practice. Determining matching components of database or XML schemas is needed in many applications, e...
Abstract. The notion of user preference in database modeling has recently received much attention in advanced applications, such as personalization of e-services, since it captures...