Dynamic composition of information retrieval techniques

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 67-97

  Arnt, Andrew ^a   Zilberstein, Shlomo ^a   Allan, James ^a   Mouaddib, Abdel Illah ^b  

^a Biologically Inspired Neural and Dynamical Systems Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE CAEN   (France)

Author keywords

Information retrieval; Meta level control; Opportunity cost; Progressive processing

Indexed keywords

COSTS; FUNCTIONS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

COMPUTATIONAL OVERHEADS; META LEVEL CONTROLS; OPPORTUNITY COSTS; PROGRESSIVE PROCESSINGS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 3042791894     PISSN: 09259902     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JIIS.0000029671.27333.7d     Document Type: Article

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