The Web has become an excellent source for gathering consumer opinions. There are now numerous Web sources containing such opinions, e.g., product reviews, forums, discussion grou...
We present an approach for optimizing the performance of information agents by materializing useful information . A critical problem with information agents, particularly those ga...
The quality of information is crucial for decision making in many mission-critical applications such as battlefield operations and intelligence analysis. However, as the system b...
Bin Yu, Srikanth Kallurkar, Ganesh Vaidyanathan, D...
We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
The scientific research in the area of computational mechanisms for trust and reputation in virtual societies is a recent discipline oriented to increase the reliability and perfor...