Search Computing Trends and Developments
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 ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for serv
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Search Computing Trends and Developments
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Volume Editors Stefano Ceri Marco Brambilla Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione P.za L. Da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy E-mail: {stefano.ceri, marco.brambilla}@polimi.it
ISSN 0302-9743 e-ISSN 1611-3349 ISBN 978-3-642-19667-6 e-ISBN 978-3-642-19668-3 DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-19668-3 Springer Heidelberg Dordrecht London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2011922270 CR Subject Classification (1998): H.4, H.3, D.4, C.2.4, F.2, D.1.3 LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application, incl. Internet/Web and HCI
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Preface
Searching for information is perhaps the most important application of today’s computing systems. In the new century, all the World’s citizens have become accustomed to thinking of the Web as the source for answering their information needs, and search engines as their Web interface. Websites reporting a movie’s plot, tomorrow’s weather in our next destination, the risks of a surgical procedure, the fastest route to a friend’s house, the video of the last opera at La Scala ca
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