Information Retrieval and Mining in Distributed Environments

✍ Scribed by Ludovico Boratto, Salvatore Carta (auth.), Alessandro Soro, Eloisa Vargiu, Giuliano Armano, Gavino Paddeu (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 291
• Series: Studies in Computational Intelligence 324
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

At DART'09, held in conjunction with the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI 2009) and Intelligent Agent Technology (IAT 2009) in Milan (Italy), practitioners and researchers working on pervasive and intelligent access to web services and distributed information retrieval met to compare their work ad insights in such fascinating topics. Extended and revised versions of their papers, together with selected and invited original contributions, are collected in this book. Topics covered are those that emerged at DART'09 as the most intriguing and challenging: (i) community oriented tools and techniques as infrastructure of the Web 2.0; (ii) agent technology applied to virtual world scenarios; (iii) context aware information retrieval; (iv) content based information retrieval; and (v) industrial applications of information retrieval. Every chapter, before discussing in depth the specific topic, presents a comprehensive review of related work and state of the art, in the hope of this volume to be of use in the years to come, to both researchers and students.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
State-of-the-Art in Group Recommendation and New Approaches for Automatic Identification of Groups....Pages 1-20
Reputation-Based Trust Diffusion in Complex Socio-Economic Networks....Pages 21-40
From Unstructured Web Knowledge to Plan Descriptions....Pages 41-59
Semantic Desktop: A Common Gate on Local and Distributed Indexed Resources....Pages 61-76
An Agent-Oriented Architecture for Researcher Profiling and Association Using Semantic Web Technologies....Pages 77-91
Integrating Peer-to-Peer and Multi-agent Technologies for the Realization of Content Sharing Applications....Pages 93-107
Intelligent Advisor Agents in Distributed Environments....Pages 109-124
Agent-Based Search and Retrieval in Virtual World Environments....Pages 125-143
Contextual Data Management and Retrieval: A Self-organized Approach....Pages 145-162
A Relational Approach to Sensor Network Data Mining....Pages 163-181
Content-Based Retrieval of Distributed Multimedia Conversational Data....Pages 183-212
Multimodal Aggregation and Recommendation Technologies Applied to Informative Content Distribution and Retrieval....Pages 213-232
Using a Network of Scalable Ontologies for Intelligent Indexing and Retrieval of Visual Content....Pages 233-248
Integrating Sense Discrimination in a Semantic Information Retrieval System....Pages 249-265
Information Processing in Smart Grids and Consumption Dynamics....Pages 267-286
Back Matter....Pages -

✦ Subjects

Computational Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics)