Resource selection is an important task in Federated Search to select a small number of most relevant information sources. Current resource selection algorithms such as GlOSS, COR...
Dzung Hong, Luo Si, Paul Bracke, Michael Witt, Tim...
The aim of query-based sampling is to obtain a sufficient, representative sample of an underlying (text) collection. Current measures for assessing sample quality are too coarse gr...
A meta-search engine propagates user queries to its participant search engines following a server selection strategy. To facilitate server selection, the metasearch engine must ke...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...