The presentation of search results on the web has been dominated by the textual form of document representation. On the other hand, the document's visual aspects such as the ...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Abstract. Collaborative search engines (CSE) let users pool their resources and share their experiences when seeking information on the web. However, when shared, search terms and ...
Despite the long history of classical planning, there has been very little comparative analysis of the performance tradeoffs offered by the multitude of existing planning algorith...
Organizing Web search results into a hierarchy of topics and subtopics facilitates browsing the collection and locating results of interest. In this paper, we propose a new hierar...