A core goal of librarians is to maximize usage of the content to which their libraries subscribe. Webscale or resource discovery systems offer a single search box for library users to access subscribed content. This article examines usage data at the University of Huddersfield to show how resource discovery has helped to increase the usage of publisher content, which has been made available to ...

One of the challenges over mobile ad-hoc networks is content discovery. P2P content discovery techniques including structured and unstructured can be employed in MANETs by considering its special characteristics and limitations. The most important characteristic of MANETs is the mobility of the nodes which creates a dynamic topology. Hence, this article evaluates both structured and unstructure...

Today, it is not uncommon for the inhabitants of major cities to have a large selection of network technologies, both wired and wireless, at their fingertips. Hence, to have an unprecedented number of services readily accessible. Whereas the availability of wired technologies is limited to one at a time (e.g., an office LAN, a residential xDSL), as far as wireless technologies are concerned, pe...

Service-Oriented Content Adaptation (SOCA) has emerged as a potential solution to the content-device mismatch problem. One of the key problems with the SOCA scheme is that a content adaptation task can potentially be performed by multiple services. In this paper, we propose an approach to the service discovery problem for SOCA and it is demonstrated to perform well. 1 Background and Related Wor...

Domain adaptation is a time consuming and costly procedure calling for the development of algorithms and tools to facilitate its automation. This paper presents an unsupervised algorithm able to learn the main concepts in event summaries. The method takes as input a set of domain summaries annotated with shallow linguistic information and produces a domain template. We demonstrate the viability...