Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know what algorithms are used
to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? The authors answer these and …

In this paper, we present a heuristic mapping method and a prototype mapping system that
support the process of semi-automatic ontology mapping for the purpose of improving …

Abstract Information retrieval (IR) has become an important application in today's computer
world because of the great increase in the amount of web-based documents and the …

Decentralized peer to peer (p 2 p) networks like Gnutella are attractive for certain
applications because they require no centralized directories and no precise control over …

The random early detection (RED) scheme for congestion control in TCP is well known over
a decade. Due to a number of control parameters in RED, it cannot make acceptable packet …

The importance of communities of practice (CoP) as an organizational informal unit for
fostering knowledge trasfer and sharing gains a lot of attention from KM researchers and …

The increasing amount of data available on the Internet has made it more important to create
efficient IR (Information Retrieval) systems than ever before. However, the execution …

Microarrays are generally designed for a specific set of organisms, and this poses a
limitation for researchers wanting to conduct investigations on gene expression in …

This paper proposes how to build an expert profile database in KMS, which provides the
information of expertise that each expert possesses in the organization. To manage tacit …

Peer-to-Peer systems are proposed to overcome the inherent problems of the traditional
Client-Server model; it permits nodes to communicate directly, to share resources, and to …