Web search is generally motivated by an information need. Since asking well-formulated questions is the fastest and the most natural way to obtain information for human beings, al...
Most work on intelligent information agents has thus far focused on systems that are accessible through the World Wide Web. As demanding schedules prohibit people from continuous ...
Electronic commerce is emerging as a major Websupported application. In this paper we argue that database technology can, and should, provide the backbone for a wide range of such...
Serge Abiteboul, Bernd Amann, Sophie Cluet, Anat E...
The global growth in popularity of the World Wide Web has been enabled in part by the availability of browser based search tools which in turn have led to an increased demand for ...
Yi-Ming Chung, William M. Pottenger, Bruce R. Scha...
We present CiteSeer: an autonomous citation indexing system which indexes academic literature in electronic format (e.g. Postscript files on the Web). CiteSeer understands how to ...