A re-examination of relevance: toward a dynamic, situational definition
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The first text retrieval conference (TREC-1) Rockville, MD, U.S.A., 4–6 November, 1992
Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
The formalism of probability theory in IR: a foundation or an encumbrance?
SIGIR '94 Proceedings of the 17th 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
Journal of the American Society for Information Science - Special issue: evaluation of information retrieval systems
STARTS: Stanford proposal for Internet meta-searching
SIGMOD '97 Proceedings of the 1997 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Information storage and retrieval
Information storage and retrieval
Principles of database query processing for advanced applications
Principles of database query processing for advanced applications
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
Effective retrieval with distributed collections
Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Text retrieval and filtering: analytic models of performance
Text retrieval and filtering: analytic models of performance
Principles of distributed database systems (2nd ed.)
Principles of distributed database systems (2nd ed.)
Methods for information server selection
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Towards the identification of the optimal number of relevance categories
Journal of the American Society for Information Science
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
A decision-theoretic approach to database selection in networked IR
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
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Journal of the American Society for Information Science
Precision Weighting—An Effective Automatic Indexing Method
Journal of the ACM (JACM)
Effective information retrieval using term accuracy
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Towards a highly-scalable and effective metasearch engine
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SDLIP + STARTS = SDARTS a protocol and toolkit for metasearching
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A highly scalable and effective method for metasearch
ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
Approaches to collection selection and results merging for distributed information retrieval
Proceedings of the tenth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Building efficient and effective metasearch engines
ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR)
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
Information Retrieval
Modern Information Retrieval
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Database Systems: The Complete Book
Measuring Search Engine Quality
Information Retrieval
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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
Estimating the Usefulness of Search Engines
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Query Translation for Distributed Information Gathering on the Web
IDEAS '98 Proceedings of the 1998 International Symposium on Database Engineering & Applications
Metrics for Evaluating Database Selection Techniques
Metrics for Evaluating Database Selection Techniques
Effective and Efficient Automatic Database Selection
Effective and Efficient Automatic Database Selection
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Theory, Volume 1, Queueing Systems
Meaningful electronic signatures based on an automatic indexing method
Artificial Intelligence and Law
Mining Query Logs: Turning Search Usage Data into Knowledge
Foundations and Trends in Information Retrieval
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Abstract--The major emphasis of this paper is on analytical techniques for predicting the performance of various collection fusion scenarios. Knowledge of analytical models of information retrieval system performance, both with single processors and with multiple processors, increases our understanding of the parameters (e.g., number of documents, ranking algorithms, stemming algorithms, stop word lists, etc.) affecting system behavior. While there is a growing literature on the implementation of distributed information retrieval systems and digital libraries, little research has focused on analytic models of performance. We analytically describe the performance for single and multiple processors, both when different processors have the same parameter values and when they have different values. The use of different ranking algorithms and parameter values at different sites is examined.