Web Information Retrieval by Stefano Ceri

Web Information Retrieval by Stefano Ceri

From the reviews:

“The book covers not only a wide range, but everything that is essential to the topic of Web information retrieval… this book is an excellent starting point into the field of Web information retrieval, and can be recommended for classroom use.” (Gottfried Vossen, zbMATH, Vol. 1283, 2014)

“... this book is a valuable resource for students and instructors in web IR, primarily as a reference to supplement course teaching. Researchers and practitioners should find the book a useful quick reference guide for key concepts, techniques, and recent trends in web IR.” (Wingyan Chung, ACM Computing Reviews, July 2014)

Marco Brambilla is a professor at Politecnico di Milano (Italy), where he teaches Software Engineering and Web Science. He is a stockholder and scientific advisor at WebRatio, the firm that makes the MDD tool WebRatio, which is based on IFML, an OMG-standardized domain-specific language for UI modeling. Fluxedo was founded by him. He is also one of the creators of the IFML and WebML languages. His research interests include conceptual models, tools, and methods for developing online and mobile apps, Web services, crowdsourcing, user interaction, business processes, web science, big data, social media, and social content analysis, as well as web science, big data, social media, and social content analysis.

He has worked as a visiting researcher at Cisco Systems and UCSD (University of California, San Diego). He was a visiting professor at Paris' Dauphine University. He is the coauthor of numerous books, including Creating Data-Intensive Web Applications (Morgan-Kauffman, 2003), Interaction Flow Modeling Language: Model-Driven UI Engineering of Web and Mobile Apps with IFML (Morgan-Kauffman and OMG Press, 2014), and over 100 scientific papers published in conferences and journals. He is involved in MDSE, Domain-specific Languages (DSL), BPM, SOA, and enterprise architectures training and consulting projects.