We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
This paper presents Prospector, an adaptive meta-search layer, which performs personalized re-ordering of search results. Prospector combines elements from two approaches to adapti...
: Search is probably the most frequent activity on the Web. Yet it is not effortless, mainly due to heterogeneous information resources. Semantic search is a means to tackle the pr...
This paper proposes a hybrid approach for managing knowledge within companies based on communication between people. In addition to traditional Knowledge Management Systems our co...
Robert Loew, Katrin Kuemmel, Judith Ruprecht, Udo ...