Searching distributed collections with inference networks
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Learning collection fusion strategies
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Experiences with selecting search engines using metasearch
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
A probabilistic model for distributed information retrieval
Proceedings of the 20th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Principles of database query processing for advanced applications
Principles of database query processing for advanced applications
Effective retrieval with distributed collections
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Evaluating database selection techniques: a testbed and experiment
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Methods for information server selection
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Inquirus, the NECI meta search engine
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
A technique for measuring the relative size and overlap of public Web search engines
WWW7 Proceedings of the seventh international conference on World Wide Web 7
Automatic discovery of language models for text databases
SIGMOD '99 Proceedings of the 1999 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Infoseek's experiences searching the internet
ACM SIGIR Forum
Phrase recognition and expansion for short, precision-biased queries based on a query log
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Comparing the performance of database selection algorithms
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
A probabilistic solution to the selection and fusion problem in distributed information retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Cluster-based language models for distributed retrieval
Proceedings of the 22nd annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Efficient and effective metasearch for a large number of text databases
Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Query routing for Web search engines: architectures and experiments
Proceedings of the 9th international World Wide Web conference on Computer networks : the international journal of computer and telecommunications netowrking
Probe, count, and classify: categorizing hidden web databases
SIGMOD '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Efficient and effective metasearch for text databases incorporating linkages among documents
SIGMOD '01 Proceedings of the 2001 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Building efficient and effective metasearch engines
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval
A Methodology to Retrieve Text Documents from Multiple Databases
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
A Statistical Method for Estimating the Usefulness of Text Databases
IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering
Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources
VLDB '97 Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet
VLDB '98 Proceedings of the 24rd International Conference on Very Large Data Bases
Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies
VLDB '95 Proceedings of the 21th 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)
Finding the Most Similar Documents across Multiple Text Databases
ADL '99 Proceedings of the IEEE Forum on Research and Technology Advances in Digital Libraries
Detection of Heterogeneities in a Multiple Text Database Environment
COOPIS '99 Proceedings of the Fourth IECIS International Conference on Cooperative Information Systems
Query Routing in Large-Scale Digital Library Systems
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines
ICDE '99 Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Data Engineering
Concept Hierarchy Based Text Database Categorization in a Metasearch Engine Environment
WISE '00 Proceedings of the First International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (WISE'00)-Volume 1 - Volume 1
USITS'97 Proceedings of the USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems on USENIX Symposium on Internet Technologies and Systems
Information Retrieval with Distributed Databases: Analytic Models of Performance
IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems
EBizPort: collecting and analyzing business intelligence information
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
CMedPort: an integrated approach to facilitating Chinese medical information seeking
Decision Support Systems
AllInOneNews: development and evaluation of a large-scale news metasearch engine
Proceedings of the 2007 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
A Fuzzy Search Engine Weighted Approach to Result Merging for Metasearch
RSFDGrC '07 Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining and Granular Computing
Configurable meta-search in the job domain
International Journal of Web Engineering and Technology
LESSON: A system for lecture notes searching and sharing over Internet
Journal of Systems and Software
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
Meta-search based web resource discovery for object-level vertical search
WISE'06 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Web Information Systems
A comprehensive OWA-based framework for result merging in metasearch
RSFDGrC'05 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Rough Sets, Fuzzy Sets, Data Mining, and Granular Computing - Volume Part II
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A metasearch engine is a system that supports unified access to multiple local search engines. Database selection is one of the main challenges in building a large-scale metasearch engine. The problem is to efficiently and accurately determine a small number of potentially useful local search engines to invoke for each user query. In order to enable accurate selection, metadata that reflect the contents of each search engine need to be collected and used. This article proposes a highly scalable and accurate database selection method. This method has several novel features. First, the metadata for representing the contents of all search engines are organized into a single integrated representative. Such a representative yields both computational efficiency and storage efficiency. Second, the new selection method is based on a theory for ranking search engines optimally. Experimental results indicate that this new method is very effective. An operational prototype system has been built based on the proposed approach.