Personalizing the source selection and the result merging process

International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 331-354

  Samir, Kechid ^a   Habiba, Drias ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY HOUARI BOUMEDIENE   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Result merging; Source profile; Source selection; User profile

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; RESULT MERGING; SOURCE PROFILE; SOURCE SELECTION; USER PROFILE;

CONTENT BASED RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; MERGING; WORLD WIDE WEB;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 65849217725     PISSN: 02182130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0218213009000159     Document Type: Article

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