Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...
As mobile devices get ubiquitous and grow in computational power, their management of interdependent data also becomes increasingly important. The mobile environment exhibits all ...
Subhasish Mazumdar, Mateusz Pietrzyk, Panos K. Chr...
Enosys Markets offers a state-of-the-art data integration software platform to support the development of the next generation of eBusiness applications that deliver value by provi...
A new extension of the Boolean association rules, ordinal association rules, that incorporates ordinal relationships among data items, is introduced. One use for ordinal rules is ...
Existing approaches for optimizing queries in data integration use decoupled strategies–attempting to optimize coverage and cost in two separate phases. Since sources tend to ha...
This paper describes how an integrated web-based application, code-named FOCI (Flexible Organizer for Competitive Intelligence), can help the knowledge worker in the gathering, or...
Hwee-Leng Ong, Ah-Hwee Tan, Jamie Ng, Hong Pan, Qi...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...
Given a large number of search engines on the Internet, it is di cult for a person to determine which search engines could serve his/her information needs. A common solution is to...
King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Weiyi Meng, Adrian Sa...