Mashups are situational applications that join multiple sources to better meet the information needs of Web users. Web sources can be huge databases behind query interfaces, which...
Abstract--To make sure they can quickly respond to a specific query, the main search engines have several mechanisms. One of them consists in ranking web pages according to their i...
One of the main interests in the Web Information Retrieval research area is the identification of the user interests and needs so the search engines and tools can help the users t...
Abstract--This position paper describes the challenges related to federated enterprise search over heterogeneous product information sources. It focuses on the aspect of finding re...
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....