We study the problem of maintaining large replicated collections of files or documents in a distributed environment with limited bandwidth. This problem arises in a number of impo...
We propose an agent for exploring and categorizing documents on the World Wide Web based on a user pro le. The heart of the agent is an automatic categorization of a set of docume...
Eui-Hong Han, Daniel Boley, Maria L. Gini, Robert ...
MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
We introduce an experimental search engine for multilingual and multimedia information, employing a holistic web interface and enabling the use of highly distributed indices. Moda...
Konstantinos Zagoris, Avi Arampatzis, Savvas A. Ch...
Local search is a specialization of the web search that allows users to submit geographically constrained queries. However, one of the challenges for local search engines is to un...