Abstract. e-Procurement is an Internet-based business process for obtaining materials and services and managing their inflow into the organization. In this paper we develop multia...
—Information dissemination in a large network is typically achieved when each user shares its own information or resources with each other user. Consider n users randomly located...
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
In a multimodal optimization task, the main purpose is to find multiple optimal solutions (global and local), so that the user can have a better knowledge about different optima...
The goal of distributed information retrieval is to support effective searching over multiple document collections. For efficiency, queries should be routed to only those collectio...