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  • Open Access
515 Views
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24 June 2026

The proliferation of cloud-based data outsourcing has intensified the need for efficient semantic retrieval over encrypted data. Existing searchable encryption schemes often face a coupled bottleneck: (i) semantic index can be unstable or overly coar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Entropy Methods in Security Information Processing and Its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,058 Views
15 Pages

2 July 2022

Recently, a pragmatic approach toward achieving semantic search has made significant progress with knowledge graph embedding (KGE). Although many standards, methods, and technologies are applicable to the linked open data (LOD) cloud, there are still...

(This article belongs to the Topic Methods for Data Labelling for Intelligent Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,181 Views
12 Pages

27 August 2021

The automated enrichment of mass-digitised document collections using techniques such as text mining is becoming increasingly popular. Enriched collections offer new opportunities for interface design to allow data-driven and visualisation-based sear...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Text Analysis in Digital Humanities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
6,245 Views
14 Pages

A Smart Web-Based Geospatial Data Discovery System with Oceanographic Data as an Example

  • Yongyao Jiang,
  • Yun Li,
  • Chaowei Yang,
  • Fei Hu and ,
  • Edward M. Armstrong,
  • Thomas Huang,
  • David Moroni,
  • Lewis J. McGibbney,
  • Frank Greguska and
  • Christopher J. Finch
  • + 5 authors+ 0 author

Discovering and accessing geospatial data presents a significant challenge for the Earth sciences community as massive amounts of data are being produced on a daily basis. In this article, we report a smart web-based geospatial data discovery system...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Web and Mobile GIS)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,881 Views
18 Pages

Currently, cloud computing has become increasingly popular and thus, many people and institutions choose to put their data into the cloud instead of local environments. Given the massive amount of data and the fidelity of cloud servers, adequate secu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,107 Views
21 Pages

This paper addresses the challenge of providing operational access to current metadata in complex, ever-changing relational data warehouses. Traditional catalogs struggle to keep up with changes in schemas, code, and processes. The paper presents a m...

(This article belongs to the Topic AI Agents: Progress, Architecture, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,085 Views
18 Pages

In this study, we present LizAI XT, an AI-powered platform designed to automate the structuring, anonymization, and semantic integration of large-scale healthcare data from diverse sources, into one comprehensive table or any designated forms, based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Beyond Diagnosis: Machine Learning in Prognosis, Prevention, Healthcare, Neurosciences, and Precision Medicine)
  • Project Report
  • Open Access
985 Views
18 Pages

Data Management and Data Services in Large Collaborative Projects—DiverSea Experience

  • Vassil Vassilev,
  • Georgi Petkov,
  • Boris Kraychev,
  • Stoyan Haydushki and ,
  • Stoyan Nikolov,
  • Viktor Sowinski-Mydlarz,
  • Ensiye Kiyamousavi,
  • Nikolay Shivarov and
  • Denitsa Stoilova
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

15 February 2026

Collaborative projects under the Horizon Europe Framework Program of the European Union typically involve a large number of partners from multiple countries. Data-centric projects, among them, often require integration of disparate data source format...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Blockchain and Big Data Analytics: AI-Driven Data Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,020 Views
11 Pages

Custom-Tailored Radiology Research via Retrieval-Augmented Generation: A Secure Institutionally Deployed Large Language Model System

  • Michael Welsh,
  • Julian Lopez-Rippe,
  • Dana Alkhulaifat,
  • Vahid Khalkhali and ,
  • Xinmeng Wang,
  • Mario Sinti-Ycochea and
  • Susan Sotardi
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Large language models (LLMs) show promise in enhancing medical research through domain-specific question answering. However, their clinical application is limited by hallucination risk, limited domain specialization, and privacy concerns. Public LLMs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Applications in Healthcare and Disease Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
7,492 Views
14 Pages

Reconstructing Sessions from Data Discovery and Access Logs to Build a Semantic Knowledge Base for Improving Data Discovery

  • Yongyao Jiang,
  • Yun Li,
  • Chaowei Yang,
  • Edward M. Armstrong and ,
  • Thomas Huang and
  • David Moroni
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Big geospatial data are archived and made available through online web discovery and access. However, finding the right data for scientific research and application development is still a challenge. This paper aims to improve the data discovery by mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,191 Views
22 Pages

With the increase in the amount of images online, the whole Internet is becoming an image database. Since there are so many available images, it is difficult for users to find the desired images. Unlike text search engines, image search engines canno...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Data Push and Data Mining in the Age of Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
211 Views
33 Pages

Sustainability has become central to digital commerce research, yet that literature is rarely confronted with independent evidence of what the public actually attends to. This study pairs two analyses for the Republic of Korea. Analysis 1 is a PRISMA...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Digital Commerce, Consumer Behavior, and Value Creation for the Green Transition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
704 Views
22 Pages

5 May 2026

Semantic indexing ensures better organization and optimized searching of heterogeneous, autonomous, and distributed data sources. This approach leverages meaning and context rather than just keywords to better manage the increasing volume, complexity...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems and Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
9,117 Views
23 Pages

Intent Identification by Semantically Analyzing the Search Query

  • Tangina Sultana,
  • Ashis Kumar Mandal,
  • Hasi Saha,
  • Md. Nahid Sultan and
  • Md. Delowar Hossain

22 February 2024

Understanding and analyzing the search intent of a user semantically based on their input query has emerged as an intriguing challenge in recent years. It suffers from small-scale human-labeled training data that produce a very poor hypothesis of rar...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
2,717 Views
17 Pages

6 February 2023

Accurate semantic editing of the generated images is extremely important for machine learning and sample enhancement of big data. Aiming at the problem of semantic entanglement in generated image latent space of the StyleGAN2 network, we proposed a g...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,141 Views
15 Pages

23 November 2020

Given the huge amount of heterogeneous data stored in different locations, it needs to be federated and semantically interconnected for further use. This paper introduces WINFRA, a comprehensive open-access platform for semantic web data and advanced...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Data Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,144 Views
22 Pages

With the rise in the Internet of Things (IOT), mobile devices and Location-Based Social Network (LBSN), abundant trajectory data have made research on location prediction more popular. The check-in data shared through LBSN hide information related to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
8,570 Views
29 Pages

Applying Semantics to Reduce the Time to Analytics within Complex Heterogeneous Infrastructures

  • André Pomp,
  • Alexander Paulus,
  • Andreas Kirmse,
  • Vadim Kraus and
  • Tobias Meisen

In today’s age of modern information technology, large amounts of data are generated every second to enable subsequent data aggregation and analysis. However, the IT infrastructures that have been set up over the last few decades and which shou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cyber-Physical Systems: Data Processing and Communication Architectures)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,897 Views
33 Pages

Interactive Search on the Web: The Story So Far

  • Sareh Aghaei,
  • Kevin Angele,
  • Elwin Huaman,
  • Geni Bushati and ,
  • Mathias Schiestl and
  • Anna Fensel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Search on the web, specifically fetching of the relevant content, has been paid attention to since the advent of the web and particularly in recent years due to the tremendous growth in the volume of data and web pages. This paper categorizes the sea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
12,331 Views
24 Pages

Semantic Models for Scalable Search in the Internet of Things

  • Richard Mietz,
  • Sven Groppe,
  • Kay Römer and
  • Dennis Pfisterer

The Internet of Things is anticipated to connect billions of embedded devices equipped with sensors to perceive their surroundings. Thereby, the state of the real world will be available online and in real-time and can be combined with other data and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Feature Papers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,283 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2025

Code search has received significant attention in the field of computer science research. Its core objective is to retrieve the most semantically relevant code snippets by aligning the semantics of natural language queries with those of programming l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,780 Views
13 Pages

A Geospatial Semantic Enrichment and Query Service for Geotagged Photographs

  • Andrew Ennis,
  • Chris Nugent,
  • Philip Morrow,
  • Liming Chen and ,
  • George Ioannidis,
  • Alexandru Stan and
  • Preslav Rachev
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 July 2015

With the increasing abundance of technologies and smart devices, equipped with a multitude of sensors for sensing the environment around them, information creation and consumption has now become effortless. This, in particular, is the case for photog...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Select Papers from UCAmI & IWAAL 2014 – The 8th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence & the 6th International Workshop on Ambient Assisted Living (UCAmI & IWAAL 2014: Pervasive Sensing Solutions))
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,984 Views
15 Pages

A Query Understanding Framework for Earth Data Discovery

  • Yun Li,
  • Yongyao Jiang,
  • Justin C. Goldstein,
  • Lewis J. Mcgibbney and
  • Chaowei Yang

7 February 2020

One longstanding complication with Earth data discovery involves understanding a user’s search intent from the input query. Most of the geospatial data portals use keyword-based match to search data. Little attention has focused on the spatial and te...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,091 Views
42 Pages

EAGLE—A Scalable Query Processing Engine for Linked Sensor Data

  • Hoan Nguyen Mau Quoc,
  • Martin Serrano,
  • Han Mau Nguyen,
  • John G. Breslin and
  • Danh Le-Phuoc

9 October 2019

Recently, many approaches have been proposed to manage sensor data using semantic web technologies for effective heterogeneous data integration. However, our empirical observations revealed that these solutions primarily focused on semantic relations...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantics for Sensors, Networks and Things)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,834 Views
14 Pages

13 January 2022

For all research data collected, data descriptions and information about the corresponding variables are essential for data analysis and reuse. To enable cross-study comparisons and analyses, semantic interoperability of metadata is one of the most i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Semantic Interoperability and Applications in Healthcare)
  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
10,132 Views
28 Pages

A Survey of Geospatial Semantic Web for Cultural Heritage

  • Ikrom Nishanbaev,
  • Erik Champion and
  • David A. McMeekin

20 May 2019

The amount of digital cultural heritage data produced by cultural heritage institutions is growing rapidly. Digital cultural heritage repositories have therefore become an efficient and effective way to disseminate and exploit digital cultural herita...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,030 Views
28 Pages

Traditional geoportals depend primarily on keyword-based search, which often fails to retrieve relevant datasets when metadata are heterogeneous, incomplete, or inconsistent with user terminology. This limitation reduces the efficiency of data discov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,747 Views
21 Pages

Multi-modal retrieval is a challenge due to heterogeneous gap and a complex semantic relationship between different modal data. Typical research map different modalities into a common subspace with a one-to-one correspondence or similarity/dissimilar...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Deep Neural Networks and Their Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,556 Views
20 Pages

Deep Multi-Semantic Fusion-Based Cross-Modal Hashing

  • Xinghui Zhu,
  • Liewu Cai,
  • Zhuoyang Zou and
  • Lei Zhu

29 January 2022

Due to the low costs of its storage and search, the cross-modal retrieval hashing method has received much research interest in the big data era. Due to the application of deep learning, the cross-modal representation capabilities have risen markedly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Methods and Application in Machine Learning)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
656 Views
18 Pages

Artificial intelligence (AI) has transformed how we engage with visual data, particularly within the context of enterprises. Multi-modal codification systems enable the creation of semantic connections between text and visual data using AI models. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Based Image Processing Detection and Classification Analysis for Multidisciplinary Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,345 Views
24 Pages

2 October 2023

This study focuses on the extraction and semantic analysis of data from tables, emphasizing the importance of understanding the semantics of tables to obtain useful information. The main goal was to develop a technology using the ontology for the sem...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,536 Views
19 Pages

A Method for Identifying Geospatial Data Sharing Websites by Combining Multi-Source Semantic Information and Machine Learning

  • Quanying Cheng,
  • Yunqiang Zhu,
  • Hongyun Zeng,
  • Jia Song and ,
  • Shu Wang,
  • Jinqu Zhang,
  • Lang Qian and
  • Yanmin Qi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2021

Geospatial data sharing is an inevitable requirement for scientific and technological innovation and economic and social development decisions in the era of big data. With the development of modern information technology, especially Web 2.0, a large...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Machine Learning Techniques Applied to Geospatial Big Data)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,878 Views
26 Pages

Natural Language Processing Tools and Workflows for Improving Research Processes

  • Noel Khan,
  • David Elizondo,
  • Lipika Deka and
  • Miguel A. Molina-Cabello

16 December 2024

The modern research process involves refining a set of keywords until sufficiently pertinent results are obtained from acceptable sources. References and citations from the most relevant results can then be traced to related works. This process itera...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Natural Language Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,380 Views
21 Pages

Similarity Search on Semantic Trajectories Using Text Processing

  • Damião Ribeiro de Almeida,
  • Cláudio de Souza Baptista and
  • Fabio Gomes de Andrade

The use of location-based sensors has increased exponentially. Tracking moving objects has become increasingly common, consolidating a new field of research that focuses on trajectory data management. Such trajectories may be semantically enriched us...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,367 Views
27 Pages

An Efficient Framework for Finding Similar Datasets Based on Ontology

  • Tangina Sultana,
  • Umair Qudus,
  • Muhammad Umair and
  • Md. Delowar Hossain

11 November 2024

Governments are embracing an open data philosophy and making their data freely available to the public to encourage innovation and increase transparency. However, the number of available datasets is still limited. Finding relationships between relate...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
9,509 Views
26 Pages

This research aims to investigate the roles of ontology and Semantic Web Technologies (SWT) in modern knowledge representation and data management. By analyzing a dataset of 10,037 academic articles from Web of Science (WoS) published in the last 6 y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,448 Views
15 Pages

POI data play an important role in various location-based services, including navigation, positioning, and local search applications. However, as cities rapidly develop, a substantial amount of new POI data are generated daily, often accompanied by i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,054 Views
20 Pages

Maintaining Semantic Information across Generic 3D Model Editing Operations

  • Sidan Yao,
  • Xiao Ling,
  • Fiona Nueesch,
  • Gerhard Schrotter and ,
  • Simon Schubiger,
  • Zheng Fang,
  • Long Ma and
  • Zhen Tian
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

20 January 2020

Many of today’s data models for 3D applications, such as City Geography Markup Language (CityGML) or Industry Foundation Classes (IFC) encode rich semantic information in addition to the traditional geometry and materials representation. Howeve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2nd Edition Instrumenting Smart City Applications with Big Sensing and Earth Observatory Data: Tools, Methods and Techniques)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,632 Views
31 Pages

Linked Data Interfaces: A Survey

  • Eleonora Bernasconi,
  • Miguel Ceriani,
  • Davide Di Pierro,
  • Stefano Ferilli and
  • Domenico Redavid

30 August 2023

In the era of big data, linked data interfaces play a critical role in enabling access to and management of large-scale, heterogeneous datasets. This survey investigates forty-seven interfaces developed by the semantic web community in the context of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multidimensional Data Structures and Big Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,858 Views
25 Pages

30 July 2023

Existing 3D city reconstruction via oblique photography can only produce surface models, lacking semantic information about the urban environment and the ability to incorporate all individual buildings. Here, we propose a method for the semantic segm...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
22 Pages

A Novel E-Commerce Search Engine Based on Multimodal Generative AI for Improving Product Accessibility

  • Abdulrahman Hassan,
  • Mohammed Naseif,
  • Soumaya Chaffar,
  • Rami Jomaa and ,
  • Mohammed Adel,
  • Nawaf Binsaad,
  • Abdulaziz Koja,
  • Anas M. Ali,
  • Anis Koubaa and
  • Ahmed Elhayek
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

21 October 2026

E-commerce search engines often fall short in delivering accurate and fair results due to their reliance on keyword matching and bias towards larger companies. This paper introduces a novel search engine architecture that integrates advanced AI techn...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Use of Artificial Intelligence in Business: Innovations, Applications and Impacts)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,171 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2015

The ever-increasing quantities of digital photo resources are annotated with enriching vocabularies to form semantic annotations. Photo-sharing social networks have boosted the need for efficient and intuitive querying to respond to user requirements...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ubiquitous Green IT System for Sustainable Computing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,892 Views
21 Pages

The Geranium Platform: A KG-Based System for Academic Publications

  • Giovanni Garifo,
  • Giuseppe Futia,
  • Antonio Vetrò and
  • Juan Carlos De Martin

8 September 2021

Knowledge Graphs (KGs) have emerged as a core technology for incorporating human knowledge because of their capability to capture the relational dimension of information and of its semantic properties. The nature of KGs meets one of the vocational pu...

(This article belongs to the Collection Knowledge Graphs for Search and Recommendation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,461 Views
20 Pages

Complex Queries for Querying Linked Data

  • Hasna Boumechaal and
  • Zizette Boufaida

Querying Linked Data is one of the most important issues for the semantic web community today because it requires the user to understand the structure and vocabularies used in various data sources. Furthermore, users must be familiar with the syntax...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Retrieval on the Semantic Web)
  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,839 Views
24 Pages

Internet of Things Ontologies for Well-Being, Aging and Health: A Scoping Literature Review

  • Hrvoje Belani,
  • Petar Šolić,
  • Eftim Zdravevski and
  • Vladimir Trajkovik

Internet of Things aims to simplify and automate complicated tasks by using sensors and other inputs for collecting huge amounts of data, processing them in the cloud and on the edge networks, and allowing decision making toward further interactions...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,129 Views
32 Pages

8 April 2026

High-quality training data are essential for the performance and generalization of artificial intelligence systems, particularly in dynamic environments such as adaptive stream processing for disaster response. However, constructing large and represe...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Resource Management for AI-Centric Computing Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,212 Views
27 Pages

16 September 2025

Information retrieval serves as a critical methodology for accurately and efficiently obtaining the required information from massive amounts of data. In this paper, we propose an information retrieval framework (SE-MSLC) that utilizes information th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory in Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,147 Views
16 Pages

Search Engine for Open Geospatial Consortium Web Services Improving Discoverability through Natural Language Processing-Based Processing and Ranking

  • Elia Ferrari,
  • Friedrich Striewski,
  • Fiona Tiefenbacher,
  • Pia Bereuter and ,
  • David Oesch and
  • Pasquale Di Donato
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

The improvement of search engines for geospatial data on the World Wide Web has been a subject of research, particularly concerning the challenges in discovering and utilizing geospatial web services. Despite the establishment of standards by the Ope...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Unlocking the Power of Geospatial Data: Semantic Information Extraction, Ontology Engineering, and Deep Learning for Knowledge Discovery)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,422 Views
22 Pages

1 September 2021

By labelling high spatial resolution (HSR) images with specific semantic classes according to geographical properties, scene classification has been proven to be an effective method for HSR remote sensing image semantic interpretation. Deep learning...

(This article belongs to the Topic High-Resolution Earth Observation Systems, Technologies, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,854 Views
21 Pages

PhishGraph: A Disk-Aware Approximate Nearest Neighbor Index for Billion-Scale Semantic URL Search

  • Dimitrios Karapiperis,
  • Georgios Feretzakis and
  • Sarandis Mitropoulos

5 November 2025

The proliferation of algorithmically generated malicious URLs necessitates a shift from syntactic detection to semantic analysis. This paper introduces PhishGraph, a disk-aware Approximate Nearest Neighbor (ANN) search system designed to perform bill...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research in Technology and Information Systems, 2nd Edition)

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