Server selection methods in hybrid portal search

SIGIR 2005 - Proceedings of the 28th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

Volumn , Issue , 2005, Pages 75-82

  Hawking, David ^a   Thomas, Paul ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

distributed systems; Experimentation; H.3.3 Information Storage and Retrieval : Information Search and Retrieval selection process; H.3.4 Information Storage and Retrieval : Systems and Software performance evaluation (efficiency and effectiveness); Measurement; Performance

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS; EXPERIMENTATION; H.3.3 [INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL]: INFORMATION SEARCH AND RETRIEVALS; PERFORMANCE; SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE;

DISTILLATION; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; MEASUREMENTS;

SEARCH ENGINES;

EID: 84885572144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1076034.1076050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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