Currently, most search engines are text-based and their structures are centralized. These kinds of engine are sufficient for searching text information in Internet. However, while...
Ruizhi Ye, Yingchun Yang, Zhenyu Shan, Yiyan Liu, ...
The global computational grids bring together distributed computation/communication resources. Beyond this, we envision the emergence of global `service grids', which provide...
Digital libraries are more and more available on the web. However, retrieving information in these libraries is not easy because of sources heterogeneity and distribution. Thus, w...
The problem of eciently retrieving and ranking documents from a huge collection according to their relevance to a research topic is addressed. A broad class of queries is dened a...
Many websites with a large user base, e.g., websites of nonprofit organizations, do not have the financial means to install large web-servers or use specialized content distributi...