We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
—Ranking plays important roles in contemporary Internet and vertical search engines. Among existing ranking algorithms, link analysis based algorithms have been proved as effecti...
We propose the concept of research trails to help web users create and reestablish context across fragmented research processes without requiring them to explicitly structure and ...
Abstract: Some emerging trends in the recent development of the WWW can be observed. These trends are technical, like Web Services, as well as semantic, like the integration of ont...
Web search engines are composed of a large set of search nodes and a broker machine that feeds them with queries. A location cache keeps minimal information in the broker to regist...