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Note publique d'information : Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the
answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating
search services, using ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for
service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature, and takes advantage
of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer
interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics and legal sciences. The book is divided
into three parts. The first part includes some visionary contributions on the latest
trends in search, which is becoming increasingly task-oriented and is starting to
use ontological knowledge in order to manage complex queries. The second part explores
background and related technologies, which can be considered as parallel fields of
research, useful both for setting the theoretical premises for search computing and
for providing a technological framework for building search computing systems and
applications. The third part delves into the conceptual and technological problems
and issues arising when dealing with search computing as a new search paradigm. It
provides a unified view of the results of the Search Computing project as achieved
exactly one year after its starting date.