A meta-search method reinforced by cluster descriptors

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, WISE 2001

Volumn 1, Issue , 2001, Pages 125-132

  Shen, Yipeng ^a   Lee, Dik Lun ^a  

^a HONG KONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Computer science; Indexing; Internet; Metasearch; Middleware; Oceans; Search engines; Web pages; Web server

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INFORMATION SYSTEMS; INTERNET; MIDDLEWARE; SYSTEMS ENGINEERING; WEBSITES; WORLD WIDE WEB;

CLUSTER-BASED; DESCRIPTORS; ENGINE SELECTION; GLOBAL SEARCH ENGINE; META SEARCH ENGINES; METASEARCH; OCEANS; WEB SERVERS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 79953131906     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WISE.2001.996473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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