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SEMWEB
2001
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
A Scalable Framework for the Interoperation of Information Sources
Resolving heterogeneity among information systems is a crucial necessity if we wish to gain value from the many distributed resources available to us. Problems of heterogeneity in ...
Prasenjit Mitra, Gio Wiederhold, Stefan Decker
VLDB
2001
ACM
110views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
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Comparing Hybrid Peer-to-Peer Systems
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
Beverly Yang, Hector Garcia-Molina
AGENTS
2000
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Open Source, Standards and Scaleable Agencies
Numerous agencies and agent systems are being developed or portrayed as vehicles to deliver novel types of e-commerce services to users. However service agents in one agency are p...
Stefan Poslad, Phil Buckle, Rob Hadingham
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Information Retrieval as Statistical Translation
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...
Adam L. Berger, John D. Lafferty
ISCC
1999
IEEE
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Customer Service Management: Towards a Management Information Base for an IP Connectivity Service
Customer Service Management (CSM) offers a management interface between customer and service provider, which enables customers to individually monitor and control their subscribed...
Michael Langer, Stefan Loidl, Michael Nerb