Web search engines work well for finding crawlable pages, but not for finding datasets
hidden behind Web search forms. We describe a novel technique for detecting search forms …

The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and
efficient information retrieval in a multicollection environment. Multicollection searching is …

Abstract The World Wide Web has become the largest information source in recent years
and search engines are indispensable tools for finding needed information from the Web …

Information retrieval is becoming increasingly concerned with resource selection and data
fusion for distributed archives. In distributed information retrieval, a user submits a query to a …

The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in
distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatically …

We investigate algorithms of database selection and evaluate their performance by
modelling a distributed search system. The evaluation is done using a 10 gigabyte …

This report introduces a digital library service, termed Collection Service, designed to
support the dynamic creation of virtual collections of documents. Collections are created by …

Many valuable Web documents have not been indexed by general search engines and are
only accessible through specific search interfaces. Metasearching groups of specialty …

This paper presents a novel source-biased approach to automatically discover and rank
relevant data intensive web services. It supports a service-centric view of the Web through …

It is estimated that there are hundreds of thousands of information sources on the Web,
including both the Surface Web and the Deep Web. Most of these sources have their own …