Reducing the uncertainty in resource selection

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 7814 LNCS, Issue , 2013, Pages 507-519

  Markov, Ilya ^a   Azzopardi, Leif ^b   Crestani, Fabio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LUGANO   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED RETRIEVAL; LIMITED INFORMATION; POINT ESTIMATE; RESOURCE SELECTION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84875473251     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-36973-5_43     Document Type: Conference Paper

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