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ICMB
2005
IEEE
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14 years 1 months ago
A Context-Sensitive Service Discovery Protocol for Mobile Computing Environments
Service discovery is important in mobile and pervasive computing environments, where the set of resources available to an entity changes dynamically over time. This paper describe...
Ricky Robinson, Jadwiga Indulska
CIKM
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Post-rank reordering: resolving preference misalignments between search engines and end users
No search engine is perfect. A typical type of imperfection is the preference misalignment between search engines and end users, e.g., from time to time, web users skip higherrank...
Chao Liu, Mei Li, Yi-Min Wang
ICML
1998
IEEE
14 years 8 months ago
An Efficient Boosting Algorithm for Combining Preferences
We study the problem of learning to accurately rank a set of objects by combining a given collection of ranking or preference functions. This problem of combining preferences aris...
Yoav Freund, Raj D. Iyer, Robert E. Schapire, Yora...
EDBT
2002
ACM
136views Database» more  EDBT 2002»
14 years 8 months ago
Rewriting Unions of General Conjunctive Queries Using Views
The problem of finding contained rewritings of queries using views is of great importance in mediated data integration systems. In this paper, we first present a general approach f...
Junhu Wang, Michael J. Maher, Rodney W. Topor
JODL
2000
114views more  JODL 2000»
13 years 7 months ago
Integrating ontologies and thesauri for RDF schema creation and metadata querying
In this paper we present a new approach for building metadata schemas by integrating existing ontologies and structured vocabularies (thesauri). This integration is based on the s...
Bernd Amann, Irini Fundulaki, Michel Scholl