Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...
In this paper we present the Infocious Web search engine [23]. Our goal in creating Infocious is to improve the way people find information on the Web by resolving ambiguities pre...
In this paper we show how taking advantage of autonomous agents' capability to maintain parallel interactions with others, and incorporating it into the cooperative economic ...
Abstract. Historically, information retrieval (IR) has followed two principally different paths that we call syntactic IR and semantic IR. In syntactic IR, terms are represented as...
Search engines provide a small window to the vast repository of data they index and against which they search. They try their best to return the documents that are of relevance to...