In recent years, while search engines have become more and more powerful, several specialized search engines have been developed for different domains (e.g. library services, serv...
The problem of information integration is discussed in the context of answering a query over the web. Querying the web requires that information from different web and other sourc...
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Graphical relationships among web pages have been leveraged as sources of information in methods for ranking search results. To date, specific graphical properties have been used ...
The MIX mediator systems incorporates a novel framework for navigation-driven evaluation of virtual mediated views. Its architecture allows the on-demand computation of views and q...