RSS is the XML-based format for syndication of Web contents and users aggregate RSS feeds with RSS feed aggregators. As the usage of RSS service has been diffused, it is crucial to...
Web 2.0 marks a new philosophy where user is the main actor and content producer: users write blogs and comments, they tag, link, and upload photos, pictures, videos, and podcasts...
Paolo Coppola, Raffaella Lomuscio, Stefano Mizzaro...
Recommendation systems which aim at providing relevant information to users are becoming more and more important and desirable due to the enormous amount of information available ...
Ching-man Au Yeung, Nicholas Gibbins, Nigel Shadbo...
Nowadays the Web represents a growing collection of an enormous amount of contents where the need for better ways to find and organize the available data is becoming a fundamental...
Francesco Ronzano, Andrea Marchetti, Maurizio Tesc...
The rising popularity of Web 2.0, such as blogs, forums, online calendars/diaries, etc., makes users more interested in keeping their data on the Web. Sharing of such data could m...
Information sharing can be effective with structured data. The Semantic Web is mainly aimed at structuring information by creating widely accepted ontologies. However, users have ...
The concept of location has become very popular in many applications on the Web, in particular for those which aim at connecting the real world with resources on the Web. However,...
In this paper we examine 1) the scope of geo-ontologies used especially for the purposes of information retrieval on the Web, 2) the core geographical concepts and their mutual re...
Vernacular place names are names that are commonly in use to refer to geographical places. For purposes of effective information retrieval, the spatial extent associated with thes...
Florian A. Twaroch, Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. ...