A methodology for collection selection in heterogeneous contexts

Proceedings - International Conference on Information Technology: Coding and Computing, ITCC 2002

Volumn , Issue , 2002, Pages 529-535

  Abbaci, Faïza ^a   Savoy, Jacques ^b   Beigbeder, Michel ^a  

^a ECOLE DES MINES DE SAINT ETIENNE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEUCHÂTEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Automatic testing; Database languages; Indexing; Information retrieval; Internet; Merging; Performance evaluation; Statistical distributions; Veins; Web server

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TESTING; INDEXING (OF INFORMATION); INTERNET; MERGING; WEBSITES;

DATABASE LANGUAGE; PERFORMANCE EVALUATION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION; VEINS; WEB SERVERS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84949759063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ITCC.2002.1000443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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