The FedLemur project: Federated search in the real world

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 347-358

  Avrahami, Thi Truong ^a   Yau, Lawrence ^a   Si, Luo ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION; FULL-TEXT; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS;

HEURISTIC PROGRAMMING; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; PORTALS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SEARCH ENGINES; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER; USER INTERFACES;

PROJECT MANAGEMENT;

EID: 33644537094     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20283     Document Type: Article

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