Searching distributed collections with inference networks
SIGIR '95 Proceedings of the 18th annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval
Focused crawling: a new approach to topic-specific Web resource discovery
WWW '99 Proceedings of the eighth international conference on World Wide Web
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)
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
Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control
Dynamic Programming and Optimal Control
Information Retrieval
A Machine Learning Approach to Building Domain-Specific Search Engines
IJCAI '99 Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence
Learning to Cooperate via Policy Search
UAI '00 Proceedings of the 16th Conference on Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence
Dynamics of an Information-Filtering Economy
CIA '98 Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Cooperative Information Agents II, Learning, Mobility and Electronic Commerce for Information Discovery on the Internet
Automated index management for distributed web search
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Operational requirements for scalable search systems
CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
Complexity results about Nash equilibria
IJCAI'03 Proceedings of the 18th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence
Learning models of intelligent agents
AAAI'96 Proceedings of the thirteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
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Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of computing resources. A promising way to build such systems involves federations of topic-specific search engines in decentralised search environments. Most of the previous research concentrated on various technical aspects of such environments (e.g. routing of search queries or merging of results from multiple sources). We focus on organisational dynamics: what happens to topical specialisation of search engines in the absence of centralised control, when each engine makes individual and self-interested decisions on its service parameters? We investigate this question in a computational economics framework, where search providers compete for user queries by choosing what topics to index. We provide a formalisation of the competition problem and then analyse theoretically and empirically the specialisation dynamics of such systems.