Part I: Visions

Chapter 1: Search Computing - Stefano Ceri [fulltext]
Chapter 2: Next Generation Web Search - Ricardo Baeza-Yates, Prabhakar Raghavan [abstract]
Chapter 3: Search for Knowledge - Gerhard Weikum [abstract]

Part II: Technology Watch for Search Computing

Introduction to Part II : Technology watch [fulltext]
Chapter 4: The Search Engine Industry - Tommaso Buganza, Emanuele Della Valle [abstract]
Chapter 5: From Mashup Technologies to Universal Integration: Search Computing the Imperative Way - Florian Daniel, Stefano Soi, Fabio Casati [abstract]
Chapter 6: Web Data Extraction - Robert Baumgartner, Alessandro Campi, Marcus Herzog, Georg Gottlob [abstract]
Chapter 7: Dataspaces - Cornelia Hedeler, Khalid Belhajjame, Alessandro Campi, Suzanne Embury, Alvaro Fernandez, Norman Paton [abstract]
Chapter 8: Multimedia and Multimodal Information Retrieval - Alessandro Bozzon, Piero Fraternali [abstract]

Part III: Issues in Search Computing

Introduction to Part III : Search Computing [fulltext]
Chapter 9: Service Marts - Alessandro Campi, Stefano Ceri, Georg Gottlob, Andrea Maesani, Stefania Ronchi [abstract]
Chapter 10: Join Methods and Query Optimization - Daniele Braga, Stefano Ceri, Michael Grossniklaus [abstract]
Chapter 11: Rank-join Algorithms for Search Computing - Ihab Ilyas, Davide Martinenghi, Marco Tagliasacchi [abstract]
Chapter 12: Panta Rhei: A Query Execution Environment - Daniele Braga, Stefano Ceri, Francesco Corcoglioniti, Michael Grossniklaus [abstract]
Chapter 13: Liquid Queries and Liquid Results in Search Computing - Alessandro Bozzon, Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Piero Fraternali, Ioana Manolescu [abstract]
Chapter 14: Building Search Computing Applications - Marco Brambilla, Stefano Ceri, Alessandro Bozzon, Francesco Corcoglioniti [abstract]
Chapter 15: Search Computing and the Life Sciences - Marco Masseroli, Norman W Paton, Irena Spasic [abstract]

Appendixes

Appendix A: Search Computing Dictionary [fulltext]