10. In a data communication network a multi-dimensional foraging and retrieval system, comprising: a working set of documents generated from a collection of documents having dimensions, wherein a dimension of a document represents a characteristic of the document; a non-working set of documents comprised of the collection documents having dimensions that are outside the working set; a plurality of panels, each panel corresponding to a selected dimension or combination of dimensions of the documents, at least one panel is a recency panel that presents documents within the working set and the non-working set on a time line, wherein the time line indicates a date of creation for each document presented; a plurality of documents generated from the documents in the working set, the generated documents representative of the dimension or combination of dimensions for a corresponding panel; a plurality of neighboring document sets formed from documents other than the documents of the working set, the neighboring documents related to the documents generated from the working set; and a display for displaying multiple dimensions, including at least some of the plurality of panels having ones of the document sets, the document sets corresponding to the dimension or combination of dimensions of the respective panel, and the selected document sets arranged in a relationship to each other, wherein document sets within the working set and the non-working set are displayed, at least some of the panels having a visual retrieval boundary, the visual retrieval boundary distinguishes between document sets within the working set and document sets in the non-working set; adding at least one of a visual constraint or inclusion to at least one of the displayed panels; altering the working set and the non-working set and the visual retrieval boundary based on the adding of the at least one visual constraint or inclusion; and displaying the panels with the altered working set and the non-working set and retrieval boundary.
10. In a data communication network a multi-dimensional foraging and retrieval system, comprising: a working set of documents generated from a collection of documents having dimensions, wherein a dimension of a document represents a characteristic of the document; a non-working set of documents comprised of the collection documents having dimensions that are outside the working set; a plurality of panels, each panel corresponding to a selected dimension or combination of dimensions of the documents, at least one panel is a recency panel that presents documents within the working set and the non-working set on a time line, wherein the time line indicates a date of creation for each document presented; a plurality of documents generated from the documents in the working set, the generated documents representative of the dimension or combination of dimensions for a corresponding panel; a plurality of neighboring document sets formed from documents other than the documents of the working set, the neighboring documents related to the documents generated from the working set; and a display for displaying multiple dimensions, including at least some of the plurality of panels having ones of the document sets, the document sets corresponding to the dimension or combination of dimensions of the respective panel, and the selected document sets arranged in a relationship to each other, wherein document sets within the working set and the non-working set are displayed, at least some of the panels having a visual retrieval boundary, the visual retrieval boundary distinguishes between document sets within the working set and document sets in the non-working set; adding at least one of a visual constraint or inclusion to at least one of the displayed panels; altering the working set and the non-working set and the visual retrieval boundary based on the adding of the at least one visual constraint or inclusion; and displaying the panels with the altered working set and the non-working set and retrieval boundary. 11. The data communication network according to claim 10 further including a client/server configuration wherein communication between the client and server employs a communications protocol that supports computations based on incremental communication of search results.