Evaluation of result merging strategies for metasearch engines

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

Volumn 3806 LNCS, Issue , 2005, Pages 53-66

  Lu, Yiyao ^a   Meng, Weiyi ^a   Shu, Liangcai ^a   Yu, Clement ^b   Liu, King Lup ^c  

^a State University of New York at Binghamton   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c Webscalers LLC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ANALYSIS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; METADATA; WORLD WIDE WEB;

MERGING ALGORITHMS; METASEARCH ENGINE; WEB TRACK;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 33744783385     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/11581062_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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