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TOIS
2008
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Classification-aware hidden-web text database selection
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Panagiotis G. Ipeirotis, Luis Gravano
SIGIR
1999
ACM
13 years 8 months ago
Comparing the Performance of Database Selection Algorithms
Abstract We compare the performance of two database selection algorithms reported in the literature. Their performance is compared using a common testbed designed specifically for ...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, James P. Calla...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
The impact of database selection on distributed searching
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
Allison L. Powell, James C. French, James P. Calla...
ICDE
2004
IEEE
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14 years 5 months ago
A Probabilistic Approach to Metasearching with Adaptive Probing
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...
Zhenyu Liu, Chang Luo, Junghoo Cho, Wesley W. Chu