Searching distributed collections with inference networks
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Large-scale information retrieval with latent semantic indexing
Information Sciences: an International Journal
An efficient algorithm for full text retrieval for multiple keywords
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Methods for information server selection
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Cluster-based language models for distributed retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A decision-theoretic approach to database selection in networked IR
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
GlOSS: text-source discovery over the Internet
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
Real life, real users, and real needs: a study and analysis of user queries on the web
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The impact of database selection on distributed searching
SIGIR '00 Proceedings of the 23rd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The open archives initiative: building a low-barrier interoperability framework
Proceedings of the 1st ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A study of smoothing methods for language models applied to Ad Hoc information retrieval
Proceedings of the 24th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A language modeling framework for resource selection and results merging
Proceedings of the eleventh international conference on Information and knowledge management
Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Server Ranking for Distributed Text Retrieval Systems on the Internet
Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications (DASFAA)
Combining document representations for known-item search
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
Relevant document distribution estimation method for resource selection
Proceedings of the 26th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in informaion retrieval
STARTS: Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Retrieval and Search
STARTS: Stanford Protocol Proposal for Internet Retrieval and Search
Comparing the performance of collection selection algorithms
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A semisupervised learning method to merge search engine results
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Engineering a multi-purpose test collection for web retrieval experiments
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Unified utility maximization framework for resource selection
Proceedings of the thirteenth ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
A subjective measure of web search quality
Information Sciences—Informatics and Computer Science: An International Journal
GRID Based Federated Digital Library
Proceedings of the 2nd conference on Computing frontiers
Server selection methods in hybrid portal search
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Modeling search engine effectiveness for federated search
Proceedings of the 28th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
The FedLemur project: Federated search in the real world
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Search Engine Coverage of the OAI-PMH Corpus
IEEE Internet Computing
Capturing collection size for distributed non-cooperative retrieval
SIGIR '06 Proceedings of the 29th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
CIKM '06 Proceedings of the 15th ACM international conference on Information and knowledge management
Evaluating sampling methods for uncooperative collections
SIGIR '07 Proceedings of the 30th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
On the quality of resources on the Web: An information retrieval perspective
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Proceedings of the sixteenth ACM conference on Conference on information and knowledge management
Grid-enabling data mining applications with DataMiningGrid: An architectural perspective
Future Generation Computer Systems
On the history of evaluation in IR
Journal of Information Science
Improving the performance of Federated Digital Library services
Future Generation Computer Systems
Proceedings of the VLDB Endowment
A three-year study on the freshness of web search engine databases
Journal of Information Science
Robust result merging using sample-based score estimates
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
What users see - Structures in search engine results pages
Information Sciences: an International Journal
SUSHI: scoring scaled samples for server selection
Proceedings of the 32nd international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Server selection methods in personal metasearch: a comparative empirical study
Information Retrieval
Learning from past queries for resource selection
Proceedings of the 18th ACM conference on Information and knowledge management
Central-rank-based collection selection in uncooperative distributed information retrieval
ECIR'07 Proceedings of the 29th European conference on IR research
Adaptive query-based sampling of distributed collections
SPIRE'06 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on String Processing and Information Retrieval
PIVOT: An adaptive information discovery framework for computational grids
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Modeling term proximity for probabilistic information retrieval models
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Optimized cluster-based filtering algorithm for graph metadata
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Algorithmic superactivation of asymptotic quantum capacity of zero-capacity quantum channels
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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We propose a new integral-based source selection algorithm for uncooperative distributed information retrieval environments. The algorithm functions by modeling each source as a plot, using the relevance score and the intra-collection position of its sampled documents in reference to a centralized sample index. Based on the above modeling, the algorithm locates the collections that contain the most relevant documents. A number of transformations are applied to the original plot, in order to reward collections that have higher scoring documents and dampen the effect of collections returning an excessive number of documents. The family of linear interpolant functions that pass through the points of the modified plot is computed for each available source and the area that they cover in the rank-relevance space is calculated. Information sources are ranked based on the area that they cover. Based on this novel metric for collection relevance, the algorithm is tested in a variety of testbeds in both recall and precision oriented settings and its performance is found to be better or at least equal to previous state-of-the-art approaches, overall constituting a very effective and robust solution.