This paper reports results from a failure analysis (i.e., incorrect query construction) of 51,473 queries from 18,113 users of Excite, a major Web search engine. Given that many d...
In this paper, we present DIAMS, a system of distributed,collaborative information agents which help users access, collect, organize and exchange information on the World Wide Web...
In this paper we present a mechanism for translating information in heterogeneous digital library environments. We model information as a set of conjunctive constraints that are s...
We present CiteSeer: an autonomous citation indexing system which indexes academic literature in electronic format (e.g. Postscript files on the Web). CiteSeer understands how to ...
When a digital library is decomposed into many geographically distributed repositories,searchefficiencybecomesan issue. Increasing network congestion makes this a compelling issue...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Walter R. Crei...
This paper presents design considerations for the construction of advanced information environments, and a prototype interface that attempts to respond to them. The design conside...
We describe an extensible constructor tool that helps information experts (e.g., librarians) create specialized query synthesizers for heterogeneous digital-library environments. ...
Michelle Q. Wang Baldonado, Seth Katz, Andreas Pae...
The global growth in popularity of the World Wide Web has been enabled in part by the availability of browser based search tools which in turn have led to an increased demand for ...
Yi-Ming Chung, William M. Pottenger, Bruce R. Scha...