Abstract. The single-system approach is no longer sufficient to handle the load on popular Internet servers, especially for those offering extensive multimedia content. Such servic...
A current trend in the web services community is to define coordination mechanisms to execute collaborative tasks involving multiple organizations. Following this tendency, this w...
This paper addresses the various facets of emergent semantics in content retrieval systems such as Knowledge Sifter, an architecture and system based on the use of specialized agen...
Web search engines help users find useful information on the World Wide Web (WWW). However, when the same query is submitted by different users, typical search engines return the ...
Practice has shown that providing content to students alone is not sufficient for good learning results. In computer based training (CBT) and especially webbased training (WBT) en...