The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
Abstract. Previous evaluations of server selection methods for federated search have either used metrics which are unconnected with user satisfaction, or have not been able to acco...
Web server scalability can be greatly enhanced via hybrid data dissemination methods that use both unicast and multicast. Hybrid data dissemination is particularly promising due t...
Wenhui Zhang, Vincenzo Liberatore, Jonathan Beaver...
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...
We evaluate server selection methods in a Web environment, modeling a digital library which makes use of existing Web search servers rather than building its own index. The evalua...