— In recent applications of clustering such as gene expression microarray analysis, collaborative filtering, and web mining, object similarity is no longer measured by physical ...
Violations of functional dependencies (FDs) are common in practice, often arising in the context of data integration or Web data extraction. Resolving these violations is known to...
In many different applications on the Web, distributed agents would like to discover and access high quality information sources. This is a challenging problem since an agent does...
Impact assessment (IA) is a key method for the legislator to evaluate policies, norms or regulations currently under development. Experts use IA to gather and analyze input from m...
The Semantic Web is intended for knowledge sharing among agents as well as humans. To achieve this goal, Ontologies, which express knowledge in a certain vitality as well as in a ...