While the explosion of on-line information has brought new opportunities for nding and using electronic data, it has also brought to the forefront the problem of isolating useful ...
Robin D. Burke, Kristian J. Hammond, Benjamin C. Y...
Aircraft maintenance is performed by mechanics who are required, by regulation, to consult expert engineers for repair instructions and approval. In addition to their own experien...
Onn Shehory, Katia P. Sycara, Gita Sukthankar, Vic...
General information retrieval systems are designed to serve all users without considering individual needs. In this paper, we propose a novel approach to personalized search. It c...
Yuanhua Lv, Le Sun, Junlin Zhang, Jian-Yun Nie, Wa...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...
Peer-to-Peer (p2p), as an emerging technology, is exerting huge influence on various application scenarios. Meanwhile, agents, assisting applications in traditional paradigm with...