Server selection methods in personal metasearch: A comparative empirical study

Information Retrieval

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 581-604

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Hawking, David ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b Funnelback Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Distributed information retrieval; Server selection

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049307287     PISSN: 13864564     EISSN: 15737659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10791-009-9094-z     Document Type: Article

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