A fuzzy search engine weighted approach to result merging for metasearch

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

Volumn 4482 LNAI, Issue , 2007, Pages 95-102

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA AT LAFAYETTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Data fusion; IGOWA; Metasearch engines; Metasearching; OWA

Indexed keywords

FUZZY AGGREGATION; METASEARCH ENGINES; METASEARCHING; ORDERED WEIGHT AVERAGE;

DATA FUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEARCH ENGINES;

FUZZY SYSTEMS;

EID: 38048999042     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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