In search engines, ranking algorithms measure the importance and relevance of documents mainly based on the contents and relationships between documents. User attributes are usual...
The World Wide Web is a large, heterogeneous, distributedcollectionof documents connected by hypertext links. The most common technologycurrently used for searching the Web depend...
Alberto O. Mendelzon, George A. Mihaila, Tova Milo
Many documents that can be found in the World Wide Web include some kind of geographical information, often in an implicit way. The use of resources like gazetteers and geographic...
XML Topic maps enable multiple, concurrent views of sets of information objects and can be used to different applications. For example, thesaurus-like interfaces to corpora, navig...
User interaction is mostly based on forms. However, forms are restricted to alphanumerical data – the editing of geospatial data is not supported. This statement does not only ho...