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Some of today’s most widely spread applications are social systems where people can form communities and share knowledge. However, knowledge sharing is not always effective and c...
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Annotations are an important part in today’s digital libraries and Web information systems as an instrument for interactive knowledge creation. Annotation-based document retrieva...
Relational databases have had great industrial success in computer science. The power of the paradigm is made clear both by its widespread adoption and by theoretical analysis. Tod...