The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information--telephone directories,
product catalogs, stock quotes, weather forecasts, etc. Recently, many systems have been …

The Internet presents numerous sources of useful information—telephone directories,
product catalogs, stock quotes, event listings, etc. Recently, many systems have been built …

Contemporary literature is overflowing with technical terms defining various aspects of
computer-supported cooperative work. In the following chapter, we will introduce these …

In meta-searchers accessing distributed Web-based information repositories, performance is
a major issue. Efficient query processing requires an appropriate caching mechanism …

In Web-based searching systems that access distributed information providers, efficient
query processing requires an advanced caching mechanism to reduce the query response …

US6381598B1 - System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval - Google Patents
US6381598B1 - System for providing cross-lingual information retrieval - Google Patents …

Access to on-line information via the Web is exploding. Index and retrieval engines already
start to integrate a huge variety of heterogeneous repositories. However, the heterogeneity …

Adaptation to changes in organizational procedures and business rules is a sine qua non for
workflow management systems, if they have to be useful to organizations. This paper …

Mediation architectures like the Context Interchange research project, from which this work
stems, integrate disparate information sources, hiding distribution and reconciling …

We propose constraints as the appropriate computational constructs for the design of agents
with the task of selecting, merging and managing electronic information coming from such …