Information retrieval (IR) aims at defining systems able to provide a fast and effective content-based access to a large amount of stored information. The aim o
Information retrieval used to mean looking through thousands of strings of texts to find words or symbols that matched a user's query. Today, there are many mod
This book presents recent studies on the application of Soft Computing techniques in information access on the World Wide Web. The book is divided in four parts
Search engines, with Google at the top, have become the most heavily used online service, with millions of searches performed every day and many remarkable capa
The growing presence of biologically-inspired processing has caused significant changes in data retrieval. With the ubiquity of these technologies, more effecti