A probabilistic approach to metasearching with adaptive probing

Proceedings - International Conference on Data Engineering

Volumn 20, Issue , 2004, Pages 547-558

  Liu, Zhenyu ^a   Luo, Chang ^a   Cho, Junghoo ^a   Chu, Wesley W ^a  

^a Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE PROBING; DATABASE PROBING; DATABASE SELECTION; WEB DATABASE;

DATA REDUCTION; DATABASE SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; QUERY LANGUAGES; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

DATA MINING;

EID: 2442475200     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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