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Meta Web Search with KOMET

KOMET is a logic-based mediator system that was designed for the knowledge-based integration of heterogeneous information sources CJKS97]. One of the main challenges in using the numerous information sources in the World Wide Web is to cope with their heterogeneity. In this work we demonstrate how popular web search services like Yahoo and AltaVista can be combined in the framework of KOMET to ...

Dedication to William A. Gale

I only ever really knew Bill via e-mail, yet he represented one of the most significant academic contacts I’ve ever had. The Good-Turing paper that we collaborated on was definitely one of the most fulfilling high points of my publishing career – apart from any intellectual value it may have, it was more fun than almost anything else I’ve worked on in my professional role. It was a privilege fo...

Michael Abercrombie (1912-1979).

Benjamin Gale

Succeeding Jared Eliot, the pastor-physician and medical instructor, was Benjamin Gale, his son-in-law and a leading physician of his time. Not a pastor though he dabbled in theology, not a politician though he represented his town for twenty years in the legislature, not a loyalist though he hated the constitution and at one time wished for reunion with Great Britain he was, "a man of integrit...

Richard Doll 1912–2005

the differences of organic production. However, the exclusion of synthetic pesticides and fertilizers from organic systems is fundamental. Given this, the authors asked, why did the magnitude of differences in species density and abundance vary so much between the different groups they looked at? One factor may be the differential impacts of timing and special scales on the colonization traits ...