Relevance Feedback (RF) is a technique allowing to enrich an initial query according to the user feedback in order to get results closer to the user’s information need. This pape...
Three join algorithms are evaluated in an environment with distributed main-memory based mediators and data sources. A streamed ship-out join ships bulks of tuples to a mediator ne...
Complex web information structures prevent search engines from providing satisfactory context-sensitive retrieval. We see that in order to overcome this obstacle, it is essential t...
Abstract. This paper extends previous studies that investigated the accessibility of different web sites of specific content, to an analysis of the whole web of a specific country ...
Abstract. Thanks to the recent explosive progress of WWW (WorldWide Web), we can easily access a large number of images from WWW. There are, however, no established methods to make...