Soft approaches to distributed information retrieval

International Journal of Approximate Reasoning

Volumn 34, Issue 2-3, 2003, Pages 105-120

  Bordogna, Gloria ^a   Pasi, Gabriella ^b   Yager, R R ^c  

^a CNR Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c IONA COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Fuzzy quantifiers; List fusion; Metasearch engines

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; FUZZY SETS; SEARCH ENGINES;

METASEARCH ENGINES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 0142149217     PISSN: 0888613X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijar.2003.07.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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