As the popularity of the World Wide Web increases, the amount of traffic results in major congestion problems for the retrieval of data over wide distances. To react to this, user...
Today, bibliographical information is kept in a variety of data sources world wide, some of them publically available, and some of them also offering information about citations m...
While overall bandwidth in the internet has grown rapidly over the last few years, and an increasing number of clients enjoy broadband connectivity, many others still access the i...
Recently, there has been increased interest in the retrieval and integration of hidden Web data with a view to leverage high-quality information available in online databases. Alt...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...