Document allocation policies for selective searching of distributed indexes

International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 449-458

  Kulkarni, Anagha ^a   Callan, Jamie ^a  

^a Carnegie Mellon University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Experimentation

Indexed keywords

ALLOCATION POLICIES; COMPUTATIONAL RESOURCES; DATA SETS; EXHAUSTIVE SEARCH; EXPERIMENTATION; INTERACTIVE SEARCH; MULTIPLE COMPUTERS; SEARCH ACCURACY; SEARCH COSTS; STABILITY ANALYSIS; TREC COLLECTION;

ALGORITHMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL TESTS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 78651280443     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1871437.1871497     Document Type: Conference Paper

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