Browsing by Subject "Information retrieval"
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An ActOn-based semantic information service for EGEE
(2007)We describe an information service that aggregates metadata available in hundreds of information sources of the EGEE Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn), which is ...
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An ActOn-based semantic information service for Grids
(2010)We describe a semantic information service that aggregates metadata from a large number of information sources of a large-scale Grid infrastructure. It uses an ontology-based information integration architecture (ActOn) ...
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Adaptive agent negotiation via argumentation
(2006)In this paper, we study how argumentation can be used as a basis for negotiation between autonomous agents, where negotiation strategies of the different parties are represented as argumentation theories within their ...
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Applying trust mechanisms in an agent-based P2P network of service providers and requestors
(2006)Building an agent-based network of service providers and requestors requires the effective management of the interactions among peers. These interactions, as in real life, require the mutual trust of the peers participating ...
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Characterization and analysis of a web search benchmark
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2015)Web search as a service is very impressive. Web search runs on thousands of servers which perform search on an index of billions of web pages. The search results must be both relevant to the user queries and reach the user ...
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Control of jump linear systems over jump communication channels - Source-channel matching approach
(2007)The control of partially observed jump linear systems over jump communication channels is investigated when the Plant State Information (I*SI) and the Channel Slate Information (CSI) are present at the transmitter and the ...
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A core grid ontology for the semantic grid
(2006)In this paper, we propose a Core Grid Ontology (CGO) that define s fundamental Grid-specific concepts, and the relationships between them. One of the key goals is to make this Core Grid Ontology general enough and easily ...
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Cultural journeys in the information society
(IEEE, 2000)This paper describes the Cultural Journeys in the Information Society (CJIS) project. CJIS project is an INCO project (973324) funded by the ECC and its aims to address the problem of electronic information roads at various ...
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Cytokine gene polymorphisms in multiple sclerosis: A meta-analysis of 45 studies including 7379 cases and 8131 controls
(2011)Many environmental and genetic factors have been implicated in the development of multiple sclerosis. However, the aetiology has not been clarified yet. Therefore, using a meta-analytic approach, we tried to probe the ...
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Developing the evidence base for cancer chemoprevention: Use of meta-analysis
(2011)Meta-analysis is a quantitative approach for systematically combining the results of previous studies in order to arrive at conclusions about the body of research. It answers a specific research question, includes an ...
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Distributed middleware architectures for scalable media services
(2007)The fusion of Multimedia and Internet technology has introduced an ever-increasing demand for large-scale reliable media services. This exposes the scalability limitations of current middleware architectures, as they ...
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Efficient online state tracking using sensor networks
(2006)Sensor networks are being deployed for tracking events of interest in many environmental or monitoring applications. Because of their distributed nature of operation, a challenging issue is how to accurately identify the ...
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The Electronic Road: Personalized Content Browsing
(2003)The effectiveness of a content browsing system, based on semantic content analysis, user profiling, and adaptation, is discussed. The various aspects of electronic road are also described. An user's navigation path through ...
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Exploiting locality for scalable information retrieval in peer-to-peer networks
(2005)An important problem in unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is the efficient content-based retrieval of documents shared by other peers. However, existing searching mechanisms are not scaling well because they are ...
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Finding the K highest-ranked answers in a distributed network
(2009)In this paper, we present an algorithm for finding the k highest-ranked (or Top-k) answers in a distributed network. A Top-K query returns the subset of most relevant answers, in place of all answers, for two reasons: (i) ...
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FRES-CAR: An adaptive cache replacement policy
(2005)Caching Web objects has become a common practice towards improving content delivery and users' servicing. A Web caching framework is characterized by its cache replacement policy, which identifies the objects (i.e. the ...
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Gastrointestinal stromal tumors during pregnancy: a systematic review of an uncommon but treatable malignancy
(2015)Although modern social structure and medical advances have led to the increasing number of women childbearing in older age, cancer remains a rare diagnosis during pregnancy. There is little given information throughout the ...
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Information markets for product attributes: A game theoretic, dual pricing mechanism
(2010)We model the availability of information about product attributes in Internet-based markets, focusing on a phenomenon that we term as information deficit (availability of less than perfect information about product attributes) ...
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Information retrieval techniques for peer-to-peer networks
(2004)An important challenge in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks is to efficiently search the contents of other peers. The authors survey existing search techniques for information retrieval in P2P networks, including recent techniques ...
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LMA-based motion retrieval for folk dance cultural heritage
(2014)Motion capture (mocap) technology is an efficient method for digitizing art-performances, and it is becoming a popular method for the preservation and dissemination of dances. However, stylistic variations of human motion ...