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AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool

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We describe our experiences designing and using AntWorld, a tool developed to make it easier for the members of a common-interest user group to collaborate in searching the web. It is hoped that this report may be of interest to designers of similar systems, as well as to potential users.

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  1. SCILS, Rutgers University, 4 Huntington St, New Brunswick, NJ, 08903

    Vladimir Meñkov, David J. Neu & Qin Shi

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Operations Research, University of Montreal, C.P. 6128, succ. Centre-ville, Montreal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada

    Peter G. Kropf

  2. Department of Computer Science, Laval University, 3908 Adrien-Pouliot, Sainte-Foy, QC, G1K 7P4, Canada

    Gilbert Babin

  3. School of Computer Science and Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, 2052, Australia

    John Plaice

  4. Department of Computer Science, University of Rostock, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Herwig Unger

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Meñkov, V., Neu, D.J., Shi, Q. (2000). AntWorld: A Collaborative Web Search Tool. In: Kropf, P.G., Babin, G., Plaice, J., Unger, H. (eds) Distributed Communities on the Web. DCW 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1830. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45111-0_3

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