Ontologies, as knowledge engineering tools, allow information to be modelled in ways
resembling to those used by the human brain, and may be very useful in the context of …

Activity is an important concept in many fields, and a number of activity-related ontologies
have been developed. While suitable for their designated use cases, these ontologies …

The effective evaluation of Personal Information Management is a crucial problem for the
research community. While evaluation methodologies for retrieval on the Web and in digital …

The goal of DELOS Task 4.8 Task-centered Information Management is to provide the user
with a Task-centered Information Management system (TIM), which automates user's most …

Ontologies offer a flexible and expressive layer of abstraction, very useful for capturing the
semantics of information repositories and facilitating their retrieval either by the user or by …

This paper takes as its premise that the web is a place of action, not just information, and that
the purpose of global data is to serve human needs. The paper presents several component …

Looking back at early geographic information systems, it becomes obvious that technologies
nowadays are significantly different. With the emergence of spatially aware mobile …

In this paper we describe two automatic inference mechanisms constructed around a
personal ontology with the aim of providing human like assistance for form-filling. This is part …

Recent research in the domain of Personal Information Management has recognized the
need for a paradigm shift towards a more activity-oriented system. Ontologies, as semantic …

Research networking systems (RNSs) have recently evolved into interesting and valuable
complements to personal information management (PIM) tools. Typically operating at an …