MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
In this paper, we investigate a problem of predicting what images are likely to appear on the Web at a future time point, given a query word and a database of historical image str...
The retrieval of similar documents in the Web from a given document is different in many aspects from information retrieval based on queries generated by regular search engine use...
Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebasti&a...
Localized search engines are small-scale systems that index a particular community on the web. They offer several benefits over their large-scale counterparts in that they are rel...
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...