International Journal of Web Information Systems: Volume 11 Issue 3

Facet-value extraction scheme from textual contents in XML data

Takahiro Komamizu, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

The purpose of this paper is to extract appropriate terms to summarize the current results in terms of the contents of textual facets. Faceted search on XML data helps users find…

On maintaining semantic networks: challenges, algorithms, use cases

Klaus Ulmschneider, Bernd Michelberger, Birte Glimm, Bela Mutschler, Manfred Reichert

The purpose of this paper is to provide methods and algorithms to maintain a semantic network (SN). In previous work, the authors introduced the SN approach for bridging the gap…

Raising resilience of web service dependent repository systems

Tomasz Miksa, Rudolf Mayer, Andreas Rauber

This paper aims to address the issue of long-term stability of services and systems depending on service-oriented architecture that has become a popular architecture in systems…

Path-based keyword search over XML streams

Savong Bou, Toshiyuki Amagasa, Hiroyuki Kitagawa

In purpose of this paper is to propose a novel scheme to process XPath-based keyword search over Extensible Markup Language (XML) streams, where one can specify query keywords and…

Distributed mashups: a collaborative approach to data integration

Tuan-Dat Trinh, Peter Wetz, Ba-Lam Do, Elmar Kiesling, A Min Tjoa

This paper aims to present a collaborative mashup platform for dynamic integration of heterogeneous data sources. The platform encourages sharing and connects data publishers…

A business-driven framework for automatic information extraction in professional media production

Matthias Elser, Ronald Mies, Peter Altendorf, Alberto Messina, Fulvio Negro, Werner Bailer, Albert Hofmann, Georg Thallinger

This paper aims to propose a service-oriented framework for performing content annotation and search, adapted to the task context. Media production workflows are becoming…