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Resource Discovery.- Harvesting: Broadening the Field of Distributed Information Retrieval.- Using Query Probing to Identify Query Language Features on the Web.- Resource Selection.- The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms.- Decision-Theoretic Resource Selection for Different Data Types in MIND.- Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game.- Data Fusion.- Collection Fusion for Distributed Image Retrieval.- New Methods of Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval.- Recent Results on Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System.- Architectures.- The MIND Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Federated Digital Libraries.- Apoidea: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Crawling the World Wide Web.- Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks.- The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and Its Collections Management.