Result merging is a key component in a metasearch engine. Once the results from various search engines are collected, the metasearch system merges them into a single ranked list. T...
Yiyao Lu, Weiyi Meng, Liangcai Shu, Clement T. Yu,...
This paper introduces the hash-merge join algorithm (HMJ, for short); a new non-blocking join algorithm that deals with data items from remote sources via unpredictable, slow, or ...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...