Method for organizing records of database search activity by topical relevance

MH Hansen, EA Shriver - US Patent 7,194,454, 2007 - Google Patents
The invention is related to the art of data search. It is described in reference to World Wide
Web and Internet searching. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will understand that …

Central-rank-based collection selection in uncooperative distributed information retrieval

M Shokouhi - European conference on information retrieval, 2007 - Springer
Collection selection is one of the key problems in distributed information retrieval. Due to
resource constraints it is not usually feasible to search all collections in response to a query …

Effective keyword-based selection of relational databases

B Yu, G Li, K Sollins, AKH Tung - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
The wide popularity of free-and-easy keyword based searches over World Wide Web has
fueled the demand for incorporating keyword-based search over structured databases …

Aggregation of web search engines based on users' preferences in WebFusion

AH Keyhanipour, B Moshiri, M Kazemian… - Knowledge-Based …, 2007 - Elsevier
The required information of users is distributed in the databases of various search engines. It
is inconvenient and inefficient for an ordinary user to invoke multiple search engines and …

Federated text retrieval from uncooperative overlapped collections

M Shokouhi, J Zobel - Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
In federated text retrieval systems, the query is sent to multiple collections at the same time.
The results returned by collections are gathered and ranked by a central broker that …

AllInOneNews: development and evaluation of a large-scale news metasearch engine

KL Liu, W Meng, J Qiu, C Yu, V Raghavan… - Proceedings of the …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
AllInOneNews is the largest news metasearch engine in the world, connecting to over 1,000
news sites over 150 countries. Implementing a large-scale metasearch engine like …

Using query logs to establish vocabularies in distributed information retrieval

M Shokouhi, J Zobel, S Tahaghoghi… - Information processing & …, 2007 - Elsevier
Users of search engines express their needs as queries, typically consisting of a small
number of terms. The resulting search engine query logs are valuable resources that can be …

[图书][B] Full-text federated search in peer-to-peer networks

J Lu - 2007 - cs.cmu.edu
ABSTRACT Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks integrate autonomous computing resources
without requiring a central coordinating authority, which makes them a potentially robust and …

Adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm with genetic mutation operation

Y Gao, Z Ren - Third International Conference on Natural …, 2007 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new adaptive particle swarm optimization algorithm with genetic
mutation operator. In the algorithm, we give a new adaptive inertia weight to access to local …

Result merging methods in distributed information retrieval with overlapping databases

S Wu, S McClean - Information Retrieval, 2007 - Springer
In distributed information retrieval systems, document overlaps occur frequently among
different component databases. This paper presents an experimental investigation and …