Advances in computing and networking technology, and an explosion in information sources has resulted in a growing number of distributed systems getting constructed out of resourc...
Significant efforts have focused in the past years on bringing large amounts of metadata online and the success of these efforts can be seen by the impressive number of web site...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Information integration applications, such as mediators or mashups, that require access to information resources currently rely on users manually discovering and integrating them ...
Semantic web ontology languages, such as OWL, have been widely used for knowledge representation. Through empirical analysis of real-world ontologies we discover that, like many n...