Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Bayesian Networks, the result of the convergence of artificial intelligence with statistics, are
growing in popularity. Their versatility and modelling power is now employed across a …

This paper gives a never completely account of approaches that have been used for the
research community for representing knowledge. After underlining the importance of a …

Recent developments in ICT, especially the web, have led to the creation of a growing
number of digital library projects in the UK, USA and elsewhere. This new phenomenon is …

Since the last two decades, XML has gained momentum as the standard for web information
management and complex data representation. Also, collaboratively built semi-structured …

The importance of requirements, which in practice often means natural language
requirements, for a successful software project cannot be underestimated. Although …

Currently a large number of Web sites are driven by Content Management Systems (CMS)
which manage textual and multimedia content but also-inherently-carry valuable information …

Synthesizing and building on many ideas from the literature, this article presents an
improved conceptual framework that clarifies the notion of relevance with its many elements …

In this paper, we make a survey over the primary literature regarding semantic search
technologies. By classifying the literature into six main categories, we review their …

A storage system comprises a controller; a memory; and one or more objects each including
content data and metadata. The metadata is used to construct user-defined content …