Nowadays the Web represents a growing collection of an enormous amount of contents where the need for better ways to find and organize the available data is becoming a fundamental...
Francesco Ronzano, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesc...
The asymmetry of activity in virtual communities is of great interest. While participation in the activities of virtual communities is crucial for a community's survival and ...
The term "application profile" has recently become highly topical. Heery and Patel [1] define application profiles as metadata schemas which consist of metadata elements...
People who use the Internet for health information often obtain their first opinion that way, and then, if they go to a doctor, the doctors advice is relegated to the second opini...
Current search tools on the Web, such as general-purpose search engines (e.g. Google) and domain-specific portals (e.g. MEDLINEplus), do not provide search procedures that guide u...
Suresh K. Bhavnani, Christopher K. Bichakjian, Tim...