Methods for information server selection

ACM Transactions on Information Systems

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-76

  Hawking, David ^a   Thistlewaite, Paul ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Design; Experimentation; Information servers; Lightweight Probe queries; Network servers; Performance; Server ranking; Server selection; Text retrieval

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001888008     PISSN: 10468188     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/297117.297123     Document Type: Article

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