The GoogleTM API enables software agents to query and use search results from the large collections of data available via the ever-popular Google search engine. Web searches using...
The move from the current compartmentalised systems into an interoperable environment is the central challenge facing digital development this decade. In the quest for a semantic ...
The goal of the TREC 2001 Interactive Track was to carry out observational experiments of Web-based searching to develop hypotheses for experiments in subsequent years. Each parti...
Identifying the true type of a computer file can be a difficult problem. Previous methods of file type recognition include fixed file extensions, fixed “magic numbers” stored ...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...