Data collection and mining has quickly established itself as a topic of interest, with a focus
on openly available data already used extensively. The recent years have turned attention to …

Anyone who buys tickets on a regular basis would have enough time to acquire the best
deal. Many airlines adjust ticket prices as part of their revenue management strategy. If …

To surface the Deep Web, one crucial task is to predict whether a given web page has a
search interface (searchable HyperText Markup Language (HTML) form) or not. Previous …

The Web has been identified to consist of a large portion of content that cannot be crawled
by general-purpose search engines because it is only generated after a valid submission to …

Context: Reinforcement learning (RL) can help in solving various challenges of deep web
crawling. Deep web content can be accessed by filling the search forms rather than …

With the constant increase in the volume of information available on the Web, it is more
dificult to find the specific information related to a given domain. Users are facing the …

Everyday, more and more specialized databases (car rental, hotels, airfares, etc.) are
available on the Web and can be only queried by means of a Web Query Interface (WQI) …

The identification, classification and integration of databases on the Web (also called web
databases) as information sources is still a great challenge due to their constantly growing …

Abstract Web Query Interfaces (WQIs) play a very important role in retrieving Deep Web
content. WQIs allow users to query domain-specific databases for obtaining information of …

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Introduction.................................................................................... 323 12.2 Shuffled Frog Leaping …