Evaluating server selection for federated search

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

Volumn 5993 LNCS, Issue , 2010, Pages 607-610

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Shokouhi, Milad ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

RESULT MERGING; SERVER SELECTION; STATE OF THE ART; USER SATISFACTION;

MERGING;

EID: 77952312039     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-12275-0_58     Document Type: Conference Paper

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