Modeling information sources as integrals for effective and efficient source selection

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 47, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 18-36

  Paltoglou, Georgios ^a   Salampasis, Michail ^b   Satratzemi, Maria ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MACEDONIA   (Greece)

^b ALEXANDER TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Federated search; Source selection

Indexed keywords

DATA PROCESSING; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT;

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; FEDERATED SEARCH; INFORMATION SOURCES; MODEL INFORMATIONS; RECALL AND PRECISION; RETRIEVED DOCUMENTS; SOURCE SELECTION; STATE-OF-THE-ART ALGORITHMS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 77958465069     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ipm.2010.02.004     Document Type: Article

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