Taming the Web

Speaker	Steve Lawrence	Dave Eichmann
Affiliation	NEC Research Institute	Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
Seminar title	Information Access on the Web: Current Limitations and New Techniques	Questions and Answers on the Web
Links	How big is the Web? How much of the Web do the search engines index? How up to date are the search engines? How accessible is the web? ResearchIndex NEC Research	Sulla MORE RBSE Transportable Agents at Dartmouth Agant Systems and Applications/Mobile Agents
Readings	Steve Lawrence and Lee Giles: Accessibility of Information on the Web. Nature, 400, 107-109, 1999 Steve Lawrence, C. Lee Giles, Kurt Bollacker: Digital Libraries and Autonomous Citation Indexing. IEEE Computer, Volume 32, Number 6, pp. 67-71, 1999 Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles: Searching the Web: General and Scientific Information Access. IEEE Communications, Volume 37, Number 1, pp. 116-122, 1999 Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles: Context and Page Analysis for Improved Web Search. IEEE Internet Computing, Volume 2, Number 4, pp. 38-46, 1998 Steve Lawrence and C. Lee Giles: Searching the World Wide Web. Science, Volume 280, Number 5360, pp. 98-100, 1998	Eichmann, D. and J. Wu, "Sulla - A User Agent for the Web" poster paper for the Fifth International WWW Conference, Paris, France, May 6-10, 1996 Eichmann, D., "Search and Meta Search on a Diverse Web" position paper for the W3C Workshop on Distributed Indexing / Searching Cambridge, MA, May 28-29, 1996 Eichmann, D., "Balancing the Need for Knowledge and Nimbleness in Transportable Agents," Proc. Dartmouth Workshop on Transportable Agents, Hanover, NH, September 27-28, 1996. Eichmann, D., "Preliminary Evidence in Developing and Maintaining WWW-Based Applications," Int. Workshop on Empirical Studies of Software Maintenance, Monterey, CA, November 8, 1996. Eichmann, D., "Ethical Web Agents," Proc. Second International World-Wide Web Conference: Mosaic and the Web, Chicago, IL, October 18-20, 1994, pages 3-13.