A comprehensive OWA-based framework for result merging in metasearch

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 3642 LNAI, Issue , 2005, Pages 193-201

  Diaz, Elizabeth D ^a   De, Arijit ^a   Raghavan, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BORDA-FUSE; FUZZY SET THEORY; MULTIPLE SEARCH ENGINES; ORDERED WEIGHTED AVERAGING (OWA);

FUZZY SETS; HEURISTIC METHODS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; PROBLEM SOLVING;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33645972289     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11548706_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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