The growth of the Internet and the availability of enormous  volumes of data in digital form has necessitated intense interest in  techniques for assisting the user in locating data of interest. The  Internet has over 350 million pages of data and is expected to reach  over one billion pages by the year 2000. Buried on the Internet are  both valuable nuggets for answering questions as well as large  quantities of information the average person does not care about. The  Digital Library effort is also progressing, with the goal of migrating  from the traditional book environment to a digital library  environment.   Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation  provides a theoretical and practical explanation of the latest  advancements in information retrieval and their application to  existing systems. It takes a system approach, discussing all aspects  of an Information Retrieval System. The importance of the Internet and  its associated hypertext-linked structure is put into perspective as a  new type of information retrieval data structure. The total system  approach also includes discussion of the human interface and the  importance of information visualization for identification of relevant  information. The theoretical metrics used to describe information  systems are expanded to discuss their practical application in the  uncontrolled environment of real world systems.   Information Retrieval Systems: Theory and Implementation is  suitable as a textbook for a graduate-level course on information  retrieval, and as a reference for researchers and practitioners in  industry.

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