Distributed and Cooperative Information Retrieval on the World Wide Web

A mass of heterogeneous, distributed and dynamic information on the World Wide Web (the Web) has resulted in "information overload". It's an important and urgent research issue to provide users with effective information retrieval service on the Web. Web search engines attempt to solve this problem, yet their effect is far from satisfying. In this paper, a distributed and cooperative strategy for information retrieval on the Web is proposed to substitute the centralized mode adopted by the current search …