Organizing thematic search in open archive system

Open Archive Toulouse Archive Ouverte (oatao) Aggregated Search: a New Information Retrieval Paradigm

OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Traditional search engines return ranked lists of search results. It is up to the user to scroll this list, scan within different documents, and assemble information that fulfill his/her information need. Aggregated search represents a new class of approac...

Open Archive TOULOUSE Archive Ouverte (OATAO)

Open Archive TOULOUSE Archive Ouverte (OATAO)

Resource allocation (RA) is one of the key stages of distributed query processing in the Data Grid environment. In the last decade were published a number of works in the field that deals with different aspects of the problem. We believe that in those studies authors paid less attention to such important aspects as definition of allocation space and criterion of parallelism degree determination...

Open Archive TOULOUSE Archive Ouverte (OATAO)

Dynamic Soaring is a flying technique which extracts energy from an environment where wind gradients form, with the potential to increase the endurance of small unmanned vehicles. The feasibility to use dynamic soaring flight is questioned here; it requires the identification of energy-extraction mechanisms as well as accurate understanding of the way energy-harvesting performances are governed...

Open Archive TOULOUSE Archive Ouverte (OATAO)

Sources like thesauri or taxonomies are already used as input in ontology development process. Some of them are also published on the LOD using the SKOS format. Reusing this type of sources to build an ontology is not an easy task. The ontology developer has to face different syntax and different modelling goals. We propose in this paper a new methodology to transform several non-ontological so...