Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
Although most of existing research usually detects events by analyzing the content or structural information of Web documents, a recent direction is to study the usage data. In th...
In many cases, rather than a keyword search, people intend to see what is going on through the Internet. Then the integrated comprehensive information on news topics is necessary,...
Three join algorithms are evaluated in an environment with distributed main-memory based mediators and data sources. A streamed ship-out join ships bulks of tuples to a mediator ne...
This paper proposes a novel approach to integrate heterogeneous data in P2P networks. The approach includes a tool for building P2P semantic link networks, mechanisms for peer sch...