A case study of distributed information retrieval architectures to index one terabyte of text

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1141-1161

  Cacheda, Fidel ^a   Plachouras, Vassilis ^b   Ounis, Iadh ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF A CORUÑA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Performance; Simulation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER WORKSTATIONS; DIGITAL LIBRARIES; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INTRANETS; PERFORMANCE; QUERY LANGUAGES; SERVERS; TEXT PROCESSING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTERED SYSTEM; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; OPTIMAL ARCHITECTURE; QUERY SERVERS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 16244418360     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2004.05.002     Document Type: Article

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