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Search Computing

Trends and Developments

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 6585)

Part of the book sub series: Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI (LNISA)

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Table of contents (23 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

  2. Part 1: The Search Process

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. The New Frontier of Web Search Technology: Seven Challenges

      • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Andrei Z. Broder, Yoelle Maarek
      Pages 3-9
    3. Information Exploration in Search Computing

      • Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali
      Pages 10-25
    4. Trends in Search Interaction

      • Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Paolo Boldi, Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Gabriella Pasi
      Pages 26-32
  3. Part 2: Interaction Design

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 33-33
    2. Desktop, Tabletop or Mobile?

      • Moira C. Norrie
      Pages 46-52
    3. Visualization of Multi-domain Ranked Data

      • Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Tiziana Catarci, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Maristella Matera
      Pages 53-69
  4. Part 3: Semantic Description

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 71-71
    2. Semantic Resource Framework

      • Marco Brambilla, Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Silvia Quarteroni
      Pages 73-84
    3. Automatic Normalization and Annotation for Discovering Semantic Mappings

      • Sonia Bergamaschi, Domenico Beneventano, Laura Po, Serena Sorrentino
      Pages 85-100
    4. Towards an Ontological Representation of Services in Search Computing

      • Fabian Suchanek, Alessandro Bozzon, Emanuele Della Valle, Alessandro Campi, Stefania Ronchi
      Pages 101-112
  5. Part 4: Rank Join

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
    2. The Rank Join Problem

      • Neoklis Polyzotis
      Pages 115-120
    3. Proximity Rank Join in Search Computing

      • Davide Martinenghi, Marco Tagliasacchi
      Pages 121-127
    4. Uncertainty in Rank Join

      • Ihab F. Ilyas
      Pages 128-134
    5. Trends in Rank Join

      • Ihab Ilyas, Davide Martinenghi, Neoklis Polyzotis, Marco Tagliasacchi
      Pages 135-137
  6. Part 5: Query Processing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 139-139
    2. Efficient Computation of Search Computing Queries

      • Daniele Braga, Michael Grossniklaus, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Salvatore Vadacca
      Pages 141-155

About this book

Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using the ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature and takes advantage of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics, and legal sciences. This book, the second in the Search Computing series, describes the evolution of theories, technologies, and methods related to search computing. The book has been divided into eight parts, reflecting the main research directions within the Search Computing project. The parts focus on: search as an information exploration task; interaction design issues when dealing with multi-domain search results; modeling and semantic description of search services; the rank-join problem; query processing techniques and architectures; tools and mashups for application development; the application of search computing to bio-informatics; and the exploitation potentials of project results.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla

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