Aggregated search refers to the integration of content from specialized corpora or verticals into web search results. Aggregation improves search when the user has vertical intent...
In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
We are developing an Intelligent Network News Reader which extracts news articles for users. In contrast to ordinary information retrieval and abstract generation, this method uti...
In this paper, we present the design of system of databases (SyDb). We also give the design and implementation of a Java API for global querying and updates on the SyDb. The datab...
In this paper, we propose a new paradigm for local communication between devices in Ubiquitous Computing environments, assuming a multitude of computerized everyday appliances comm...