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CIKM '03 Proceedings of the twelfth international conference on Information and knowledge management
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The FedLemur project: Federated search in the real world
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InfoScale '06 Proceedings of the 1st international conference on Scalable information systems
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Distributed text retrieval from overlapping collections
ADC '07 Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Australasian database - Volume 63
Federated text retrieval from uncooperative overlapped collections
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Smoothing document language models with probabilistic term count propagation
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Robust result merging using sample-based score estimates
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Simple Adaptations of Data Fusion Algorithms for Source Selection
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WI-IAT '09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conference on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology - Volume 01
Information Sciences: an International Journal
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Information Processing and Management: an International Journal
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LambdaMerge: merging the results of query reformulations
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Federated search links multiple search engines into a single, virtual search system. Most prior research of federated search focused on selecting search engines that have the most relevant contents, but ignored the retrieval effectiveness of individual search engines. This omission can cause serious problems when federating search engines of different qualities.This paper proposes a federated search technique that uses utility maximization to model the retrieval effectiveness of each search engine in a federated search environment. The new algorithm ranks the available resources by explicitly estimating the amount of relevant material that each resource can return, instead of the amount of relevant material that each resource contains. An extensive set of experiments demonstrates the effectiveness of the new algorithm.