Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...
Modern digital libraries require user-friendly and yet responsive access to the rapidly growing, heterogeneous, and distributed collection of information sources. However, the inc...
Users without knowledge of schemas or structured query languages have difficulties in accessing information stored in databases. Commercial and research efforts have focused on key...
Many users and applications require the integration of semi-structured data from autonomous, heterogeneous Web sources. Over the last years mediator systems have emerged that use d...
Today’s Web browsers allow users to open links in new windows or tabs. This action, which we call ‘branching’, is sometimes performed on search results when the user plans t...