Searching for the meaning of the word “personalization” on a popular search engine, one finds twenty-three different answers, including “the process of matching categorized...
New information is obtained by research and disseminated by papers in conferences and journals. The synthesis of knowledge depends upon social discourse among the experts in a give...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...
The growing popularity of hypertext navigation systems and the availability of large documentary databases is leading to the design of navigation systems that allow to explore the...
Frantz Vichot, Francis Wolinski, Joseph Tomeh, Syl...
A fundamental problem in information integration is that of designing the relationships, called schema mappings, between two schemas. The specification of a semantically correct sc...