ToC: Information Processing & Management, Vol. 43, Iss. 3, 2007

Information Processing & Management
Volume 43, Issue 3, Pages 549-848 (May 2007)
Special Issue on Heterogeneous and Distributed IR
Edited by Fabrizio Silvestri
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/issue/5948-2007-999569996-643071

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

1) Special issue on heterogeneous and distributed IR
Pages 549-551
Fabrizio Silvestri

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   Heterogeneous Data Management
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2) Information retrieval and machine learning for probabilistic schema
matching
Pages 552-576
Henrik Nottelmann and Umberto Straccia

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   Distributed IR
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3) Analyzing imbalance among homogeneous index servers in a web search
system
Pages 592-608
C.S. Badue, R. Baeza-Yates, B. Ribeiro-Neto, A. Ziviani and N. Ziviani

4) Architecture of a grid-enabled Web search engine
Pages 609-623
B. Barla Cambazoglu, Evren Karaca, Tayfun Kucukyilmaz, Ata Turk and Cevdet
Aykanat

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   Peer-to-Peer IR
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5) Search and browse services for heterogeneous collections with the
peer-to-peer network Pepper
Pages 624-642
Henrik Nottelmann and Gudrun Fischer

6) Nearest neighbor search in metric spaces through Content-Addressable
Networks☆
Pages 665-683
Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Gennaro and Pavel Zezula

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   General Research Papers
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7) Examining the effectiveness of real-time query expansion
Pages 685-704
Ryen W. White and Gary Marchionini

8) Improving query precision using semantic expansion
Pages 705-716
Ahmed Abdelali, Jim Cowie and Hamdy S. Soliman

9) User simulations for evaluating answers to question series
Pages 717-729
Jimmy Lin

10) Information redundancy across metadata collections
Pages 740-751
Muriel Foulonneau

11) Topic discovery based on text mining techniques
Pages 752-768
Aurora Pons-Porrata, Rafael Berlanga-Llavori and José Ruiz-Shulcloper

12) Using structural contexts to compress semistructured text
collections☆☆☆
Pages 769-790
Joaquín Adiego, Gonzalo Navarro and Pablo de la Fuente

13) Click data as implicit relevance feedback in web search
Pages 791-807
Seikyung Jung, Jonathan L. Herlocker and Janet Webster

14) Weak information work in scientific discovery
Pages 808-820
Carole L. Palmer, Melissa H. Cragin and Timothy P. Hogan

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   Book reviews
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15) The Turn: Integration of Information Seeking and Retrieval in Context,
Peter Ingwersen, Kalervo Järvelin. Springer, Dordrecht, Netherlands
(c2005). xiv, 448 p. (The Kluwer International Series on Information
Retrieval). $79.95, ISBN: 13 978-1-4020-3850-1 (HB).
Pages 821-822
James D. Anderson

16) James D. Anderson and Jose Perez-Carballo, Information Retrieval
Design, Ometeca Institute, Inc., East Brunswick, NJ (2005) ISBN
0-9763547-0-5 617 pp., $35.00.
Pages 822-824
Kwong Bor Ng

17) R. Rainer, E. Turban and R. Potter, Introduction to Information
Systems: Supporting and Transforming Business, John Wiley & Sons Inc.
(2007) ISBN 0-471-73636-8 €52.50, 432p.
Pages 824-825
Carlos Pampulim Caldeira

18) Charles Curran and Lewis Miller, Guide to Library and Information
Agency Management, Scarecrow Press (2005) ISBN 0810851156 $45.
Pages 825-827
Rabia Ramlogan

19) The Craft of Research, 2nd edition (Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing,
and Publishing) (Paperback) by Wayne C. Booth, Joseph M. Williams, Gregory
G. Colomb. Paperback: 336 pages. University of Chicago Press; 2nd edition.
ISBN: 0226065685.
Pages 827-828
Bernard J. Jansen

20) Geoffrey C. Bowker, Memory Practices in the Sciences, The MIT Press
(2005) ISBN 0-262-02589-2 xi, 261 pp., $34.95.
Pages 828-829
Michael Buckland

21) Effective Expert Witnessing, fourth ed., Matson, Jack V., Daou, Suha
F., Soper, Jeffrey G. CRC, 160 p., $99.95, ISBN: 0849313015.
Pages 830-831
Bernard J. Jansen

22) Aiden A. Bruen and Mario A. Forcinito, Cryptography, Information
Theory, and Error-Correction a Handbook for the 21st Century, John Wiley &
Sons, Inc. (2005) ISBN 0-471-65317-9 $95.
Pages 831-833
Mubasher Baig

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   Errata
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23) Erratum to “Delineating complex scientific fields by an hybrid
lexical-citation method: An application to nanosciences” [Information
Processing and Management 42 (2006) 1513–1531]
Page 834
Michel Zitt and Elise Bassecoulard

24) Erratum to “Unsupervised word sense disambiguation for Korean through
the acyclic weighted digraph using corpus and dictionary” [Information
Processing and Management 42 (2006) 710–722]☆
Page 835
Yeohoon Yoon, Choong-Nyoung Seon, Songwook Lee and Jungyun Seo

25) Unsupervised word sense disambiguation for Korean through the acyclic
weighted digraph using corpus and dictionary
Pages 836-847
Yeohoon Yoon, Choong-Nyoung Seon, Songwook Lee and Jungyun Seo

26) Editorial Board
Page CO2

27) Sharing mass spectrometry data in a grid-based distributed proteomics
laboratory
Pages 577-591
P. Veltri, M. Cannataro and G. Tradigo

28) p2pDating: Real life inspired semantic overlay networks for Web search
Pages 643-664
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel and Gerhard Weikum

29) Using cluster validation criterion to identify optimal feature subset
and cluster number for document clustering☆
Pages 730-739
Zheng-Yu Niu, Dong-Hong Ji and Chew Lim Tan

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