Approximate data matching applications typically use similarity functions to quantify the degree of likeness between two data instances. There are several similarity functions ava...
Carlos A. Heuser, Francisco N. A. Krieser, Viviane...
: Integrated access to distributed data is an important problem faced in scientific and commercial applications. A data integration system provides a unified view for users to subm...
In digital libraries semantic techniques are often deployed to reduce the expensive manual overhead for indexing documents, maintaining metadata, or caching for future search. Howe...
This paper evaluates the potential impact of explicit phrases on retrieval quality through a case study with the TREC Terabyte benchmark. It compares the performance of user- and s...
Commercial search engines, especially meta-search engines was designed to retrieve the information by submitting users' queries to multiple conventional search engines and in...