Collection selection for managed distributed document databases

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 527-546

  D'Souza, Daryl ^a   Thom, James A ^a   Zobel, Justin ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Collection selection; CORI; Distributed document database; Meta indexing

Indexed keywords

BROADCASTING; COSTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METADATA; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES;

COLLECTION SELECTION; CORI; DISTRIBUTED DOCUMENT DATABASE; META-INDEXING;

DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 1842843683     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(03)00008-6     Document Type: Article

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