Combining information from multiple search engines-Preliminary comparison

Information Sciences

Volumn 180, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1908-1923

  Ganzha, Maria ^a,b   Paprzycki, Marcin ^a,c   Stadnik, Jakub ^d  

^a SYSTEMS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GDA SK   (Poland)

^c Warsaw Management Academy   (Poland)

^d WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Agent based system; Auction method; Consensus method; Decision support system; Game theory; Internet search; Metasearch

Indexed keywords

AGENT-BASED SYSTEMS; AUCTION METHOD; CONSENSUS METHOD; CONSENSUS METHODS; INTERNET SEARCHES; METASEARCH;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION THEORY; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INTERNET; SEARCH ENGINES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

GAME THEORY;

EID: 77549083766     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ins.2010.01.010     Document Type: Article

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