Current search engines generally employ link analysis techniques to web-page re-ranking. However, the same techniques are problematic in small webs, such as websites or intranet w...
AnswerBus News Engine1 is a question answering system using the contents of CNN Web site2 as its knowledge base. Comparing to other question answering systems including its previo...
An important factor in the successful deployment of federated web-services-based business activities will be the ability to guarantee reliable distributed operation and execution....
In an audience driven approach to website design, the requirements of the different audiences are modeled as separated tiny conceptual schemas comparable to views. We present a ne...
This paper addresses interoperability issues of learning content management systems. Motivation and design challenges are presented and an interoperability framework implemented a...
Recent advances in storage and communication technologies have spurred a strong interest in Video-on-Demand (VOD) services. Providing the customers of VOD servers with time of serv...
In this paper, we describe an alternative web paradigm, called the Web of People. Rather than a web of pages, it is a web of persons. The paradigm is motivated by a number of obvi...
Michel Plu, Pascal Bellec, Layda Agosto, Walter Va...
Support for temporal text-containment queries (query for all versions of documents that contained one or more particular words at a particular time t) is of interest in a number of...
In the past few years we have seen a huge industrial investment on the development of content delivery networks (CDNs) which provide a large number of caches and storage devices a...
Wei-Ying Ma, Xing Xie, Chun Yuan, Yu Chen, Zheng Z...
In this poster, we introduce the mechanism of handling the ordering structure of XML data by using the Nested Relational Sequence Database System (NRSD), which is built upon the N...