— Popular documents are frequently mirrored on multiple sites in an effort to share the load and reduce clients’ retrieval latencies. However, choosing the best mirror site is ...
To help users cope with information overload, Selective Dissemination of Information SDI will increasingly become an important tool in wide area information systems. In an SDI ser...
As ancient documents are being digitized, systems for retrieving documents or images can now be found in Digital Libraries. With regard to illustrations, the content-based image r...
Web search is challenging partly due to the fact that search queries and Web documents use different language styles and vocabularies. This paper provides a quantitative analysis ...
Sixearch.org is a peer application for social, distributed, adaptive Web search, which integrates the Sixearch.org protocol, a topical crawler, a document indexing system, a retri...