The need of using spatial vector data for web-based and mobile applications has been increasing rapidly. Vector spatial data is difficult to generalise (that is, to derive a suita...
In this paper, we introduce a novel framework for clustering web data which is often heterogeneous in nature. As most existing methods often integrate heterogeneous data into a un...
Navigating through a large Web site can be a frustrating exercise. Many sites employ Site Maps to help visitors understand the overall structure of the site. However, by their ver...
Despite of the popularity of global search engines, people still suffer from low accuracy of site search. The primary reason lies in the difference of link structures and data sca...
Delta compression techniques are commonly used to succinctly represent an updated version of a file with respect to an earlier one. In this paper, we study the use of delta compr...
Zan Ouyang, Nasir D. Memon, Torsten Suel, Dimitre ...
Advances in computing and communication technologies have resulted in a wide variety of networked mobile devices that access data over the Internet. In this paper, we argue that s...
A distributed search system consists of a large number of autonomous search servers logically connected in a peerto-peer network. Each search server maintains a local index of a c...
Taxonomies are a well-established instrument for organizing and accessing resources in Information, Content and Knowledge Management (ICKM) systems. Furthermore, they contribute t...
Applying meta search systems is a suitable method to support the user if there are many different retrieval services available in the Web. Due to information splitting strategies ...