Information retrieval (IR) has changed considerably in recent years with the expansion of the
World Wide Web and the advent of modern and inexpensive graphical user interfaces and …

Current Web search engines are built to serve all users, independent of the special needs of
any individual user. Personalization of Web search is to carry out retrieval for each user …

A multi-database model of distributed information retrieval is presented, in which people are
assumed to have access to many searchable text databases. In such an environment, full …

Purpose–The purpose of this article is to provide a comprehensive literature review on the
utilisation of intelligent agent technology in the library environment. Design/methodology …

The proliferation of searchable text databases on corporate networks and the Internet
causes a database selection problem for many people. Algorithms such as gGLOSS and …

Federated search (federated information retrieval or distributed information retrieval) is a
technique for searching multiple text collections simultaneously. Queries are submitted to a …

Web search engines have stored in their logs information about users since they started to
operate. This information often serves many purposes. The primary focus of this survey is on …

The proliferation of searchable text databases on local area networks and the Internet
causes the problem of finding information that may be distributed among many disjoint text …

Publisher Summary This chapter presents an algorithm to derive content summaries from
“uncooperative” databases by using “focused query probes,” which adaptively zoom in on …

This paper evaluates the retrieval effectiveness of distributed information retrieval systems in
realistic environments. We find that when a large num-ber of collections are available, the …