The notion of certain answers arises when one queries incompletely specified databases, e.g., in data integration and exchange scenarios, or databases with missing information. W...
Through ethnographic research, we document the rise of personal social networks in the workplace, which we call intensional networks. Paradoxically, we find that the most fundament...
Bonnie A. Nardi, Steve Whittaker, Heinrich Schwarz
Prior work has shown that combining results of various retrieval approaches and query representations can improve search effectiveness. Today, many meta-search engines exist which...
M. Catherine McCabe, Abdur Chowdhury, David A. Gro...
— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
The revolution in life sciences research brought about by the sequencing of the human genome creates new challenges for scientists and new opportunities for computing support orga...
Craig A. Stewart, David Hart, Anurag Shankar, Eric...