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 …

Liu has written a comprehensive text on Web mining, which consists of two parts. The first
part covers the data mining and machine learning foundations, where all the essential …

An ontology typically provides a vocabulary describing a domain of interest and a
specification of the meaning of terms in that vocabulary. Depending on the precision of this …

The rapid growth of the Web in the past two decades has made it the largest publicly
accessible data source in the world. Web mining aims to discover useful information or …

This is a survey of the science and practice of web crawling. While at first glance web
crawling may appear to be merely an application of breadth-first-search, the truth is that …

As the rapid development of World Wide Web, there is tremendous information" hiddened" in
Deep Web, and its capacity is increasing rapidly. The information can only be accessed by …

ABSTRACT The World Wide Web is witnessing an increase in the amount of structured
content–vast heterogeneous collections of structured data are on the rise due to the Deep …

Cultural artifacts of the past have always had an important role in the formation of
consciousness and self-understanding of a society and the construction of its future. The …

Schema matching is a critical problem for integrating heterogeneous information sources.
Traditionally, the problem of matching multiple schemas has essentially relied on finding …

Ontologies proliferate with the progress of the Semantic Web. Ontology matching is an
important way of establishing interoperability between (Semantic) Web applications that use …