MIWeb realizes a mediator-based integration of heterogeneous metadata sources over the Web. Mediators are well known from database integration. They improve the quality of search ...
We present an open, decentralized, participatory system which realizes location-based services by gently extending the existing World Wide Web. Utilizing a geospatial search engin...
The retrieval of similar documents in the Web from a given document is different in many aspects from information retrieval based on queries generated by regular search engine use...
Felipe Bravo-Marquez, Gaston L'Huillier, Sebasti&a...
Localized search engines are small-scale systems that index a particular community on the web. They offer several benefits over their large-scale counterparts in that they are rel...
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...