HTML anchors are often surrounded by text that seems to describe the destination page appropriately. The text surrounding a link or the link-context is used for a variety of tasks...
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 ...
The exponential growth of documents available in the World Wide Web makes it increasingly difficult to discover relevant information on a specific topic. In this context, growing ...
The success of the World Wide Web is boosting the development of multimedia database systems and their integration into the internet. For the documents stored and exchanged in the...
We motivate the use of desktop assistants in the context of web surfing and show how such a tool may be used to support activities in both cooperative and personal surfing. By coo...