All the specialists have agreed that the possibility of adding to multimedia WWW objects some sort of `conceptual' annotations describing their information content would grea...
An important issue for federated systems of diverse data sources is optimizing cross-source queries, without building knowledge of individual sources into the optimizer. This pape...
We present a user requirements study for Question Answering on meeting records that assesses the difficulty of users questions in terms of what type of knowledge is required in or...
Abstract-- The problem of private information "leakage" (inadvertently or by malicious design) from the myriad large centralized searchable data repositories drives the n...
Lalitha Sankar, S. Raj Rajagopalan, H. Vincent Poo...
The need for supply chain integration (SCI) methodologies has been increasing as a consequence of the globalization of production and sales, and the advancement of enabling inform...
Michael O. Ball, Meng Ma, Louiqa Raschid, Zhengyin...