Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
An increasing number of applications operate on data obtained from the Web. These applications typically maintain local copies of the web data to avoid network latency in data acc...
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
The dynamic nature of the World Wide Web makes it a challenge to find information that is both relevant and recent. Intelligent agents can complement the power of search engines to...
Recently, there has been increased interest in the retrieval and integration of hidden Web data with a view to leverage high-quality information available in online databases. Alt...