We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
Geographic information retrieval (GIR) is, as a branch of traditional information retrieval, a discipline that tries to enrich data with geographical information to make it suitab...
- This article presents a framework for a XML based search system composed by three layers: data layer, logic layer and presentation layer. In all three layers XML related technolo...
Pedro Almeida, Joaquim Sousa Pinto, Joaquim Arnald...
We consider the problem of sampling URLs uniformly at random from the Web. A tool for sampling URLs uniformly can be used to estimate various properties of Web pages, such as the ...
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Allan Heydon, Michael Mitz...
Except for a handful of "mobile" Web sites, the Web is designed for browsing with personal computers with large screens capable of fitting the content of most Web pages....