Automatic integration of Web search interfaces with WISE-Integrator

An increasing number of databases are becoming Web accessible through form-based search interfaces, and many of these sources are database-driven E-commerce sites. It is a daunting task for users to access numerous Web sites individually to get the desired information. Hence, providing a unified access to multiple E-commerce search engines selling similar products is of great importance in allowing users to search and compare products from multiple sites with ease. One key task for providing such a capability is to integrate the Web search interfaces of these E-commerce search engines so that user queries can be submitted against the integrated interface. Currently, integrating such search interfaces is carried out either manually or semi-automatically, which is inefficient and difficult to maintain. In this paper, we present WISE-Integrator ? a tool that performs automatic integration of Web Interfaces of Search Engines. WISE-Integrator explores a rich set of special meta-information ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Hai He, Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu, Zonghuan Wu
• Keywords: Database, Form-based Search Interfaces, Search Interfaces, VLDB 2004, Web Search Interfaces