As web information systems tend to mature it has become increasingly important to have an engineered design of such systems. Hera is a design methodology that supports the develop...
Flavius Frasincar, Geert-Jan Houben, Peter Barna, ...
Users of Institutional Repositories and Digital Libraries are known by their needs for very specific information about one or more subjects. To characterize users profiles and offe...
Marisa R. De Giusti, Gonzalo L. Villarreal, Agust&...
Grid applications need efficient access to information about available resources and services. Typically, this access is provided by information services that are often organized ...
Abstract. Children experience several difficulties retrieving information using current Information Retrieval (IR) systems. Particularly, children struggle to find the right keywo...
Frans van der Sluis, Sergio Duarte Torres, Djoerd ...
Information retrieval needs to match relevant texts with a given query. Selecting appropriate parts is useful when documents are long, and only portions are interesting to the user...