On data fusion in information retrieval using different aggregation operators

Web Intelligence and Agent Systems

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 43-55

  Ah Pine, Julien ^a  

^a XEROX RESEARCH CENTRE EUROPE   (France)

Author keywords

Aggregation operator; data fusion; fuzzy results merging; metasearch; unsupervised rank aggregation

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION FUNCTIONS; AGGREGATION OPERATOR; BASELINE METHODS; CLASSICAL APPROACH; DATA SETS; FUZZY RESULTS MERGING; METASEARCH; MULTI CRITERIA DECISION MAKING; MULTI-SENSOR FUSION; RANK AGGREGATION; SCORES DISTRIBUTIONS; UNSUPERVISED RANK AGGREGATION;

DATA FUSION; DECISION MAKING; INFORMATION FUSION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MATHEMATICAL OPERATORS; SEARCH ENGINES; STATISTICAL TESTS;

MERGING;

EID: 79551698673     PISSN: 15701263     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3233/WIA-2011-0204     Document Type: Article

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