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 …

Interested in how an efficient search engine works? Want to know what algorithms are used
to rank resulting documents in response to user requests? The authors answer these and …

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 …

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks enable users to directly share digital content (such as audio,
video, and text files) as well as real-time data (such as telephony traffic) with other users …

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

Peer-to-peer (P2P) technology, or peer computing, is a paradigm that is viewed as a
potential technology for redesigning distributed architectures and, consequently, distributed …

Methods, devices, and systems that store occurrence-data gathered by a distributed sensor
network. In an approach, an exemplary method includes receiving a target-occurrence …

A designer is mainly supported by two essential factors in design decisions. These two
factors are intelligence and experience aiding the designer by predicting the interconnection …

Methods, devices, and systems that aggregate and retrieve network sensor data. In one
approach, an exemplary method includes receiving a plurality of instances of correlated …