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The Semantic Web, which represents a web of knowledge, offers new opportunities to search for knowledge and information. To harvest such search power requires robust and scalable ...
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As Web sites are now ordinary products, it is necessary to explicit the notion of quality of a Web site. The quality of a site may be linked to the easiness of accessibility and a...