Assigning appropriate weights for the linear combination data fusion method in information retrieval

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 413-426

  Wu, Shengli ^a   Bi, Yaxin ^a   Zeng, Xiaoqin ^b   Han, Lixin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b HOHAI UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Data fusion; Information retrieval; The linear combination method; Weight assignment

Indexed keywords

COMPONENT RETRIEVAL; COMPONENT SYSTEMS; CORRESPONDING WEIGHTS; DATA FUSION METHODS; DYNAMIC ENVIRONMENTS; FUSION APPLICATIONS; FUSION PERFORMANCE; KEYPOINTS; LINEAR COMBINATIONS; OPTIMISATION METHOD; POWER FUNCTIONS; THE LINEAR COMBINATION METHOD; WEIGHT ASSIGNMENT;

DATA FUSION; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; NUMERICAL METHODS;

WEIGHING;

EID: 67349231966     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2009.02.003     Document Type: Article

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