Decision-support requires the gathering and presentation of information, but is subject to many kinds of resource restrictions (e.g. cost, length, time). Individual users differ n...
Today many interactions are carried out online through Web sites and e-services and often private and/or sensitive information is required by service providers. A growing concern r...
Claudio Agostino Ardagna, Marco Cremonini, Ernesto...
With this work we aim to make a three-fold contribution. We first address the issue of supporting efficiently queries over string-attributes involving prefix, suffix, containmen...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
Abstract. The authors of this paper have all developed a framework that allows runtime adaptation of software systems. Based on our experiences, we wish to summarize common pitfall...
Peter Ebraert, Theo D'Hondt, Yves Vandewoude, Yola...