Resource selection is an important topic in distributed information retrieval research. It can be a component of a distributed information retrieval task and can also serve as an i...
Multimedia information systems are based on the evolving capability of computers to handle diverse types of information. Their most important characteristic is the integration of ...
: Wide area network (WAN) -based distributed computing (DC) has become an active field of research, especially under the label of grid computing. On the other hand, research on WAN...
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
Search engine researchers typically depict search as the solitary activity of an individual searcher. In contrast, results from our critical-incident survey of 150 users on Amazon...