Central-rank-based collection selection in uncooperative distributed information retrieval

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

Volumn 4425 LNCS, Issue , 2007, Pages 160-172

  Shokouhi, Milad ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONSTRAINT THEORY; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUERY LANGUAGES;

COLLECTION-SELECTION METHOD; DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SELECTION ALGORITHMS; SUBMITTED QUERIES;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 37149030700     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-71496-5_17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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