Information Retrieval on the WWW is important because it is hard to find what one is looking for. There is a plethora of information available, and searching relevant information ...
Sheetal K. Agarwal, Arun Kumar, Sougata Mukherjea,...
Web search engines present search results in a rank ordered list. This works when what a user wants is near the top, but sometimes the information that the user really wants is lo...
Applications that require real-time processing of high-volume data steams are pushing the limits of traditional data processing infrastructures. These stream-based applications in...
Michael Stonebraker, Ugur Çetintemel, Stanley B. ...
This report is part of the seminar Digital Information Curation held by Prof. Dr. Marc H. Scholl and Dr. Andr?e Seifert during the winter term 2005/06. Its intention is to summari...
Peter Buneman, Sanjeev Khanna, Keishi Tajima, Wang...
Although Web search engines are targeted towards helping people find new information, people regularly use them to re-find Web pages they have seen before. Researchers have noted ...