The purpose of this study is to consider how to use an electronic learning (e-learning) system in engineering design. The first e-learning trial in an engineering design course wa...
The output of major WWW search engines was analyzed and the results led to some surprising observations about their stability. Twentyfive queries were issued repeatedly to the eng...
Large web search engines have to answer thousands of queries per second with interactive response times. Due to the sizes of the data sets involved, often in the range of multiple...
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
Web search engines often federate many user queries to relevant structured databases. For example, a product related query might be federated to a product database containing thei...