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SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 10 months ago
Enhancing web search by promoting multiple search engine use
Any given Web search engine may provide higher quality results than others for certain queries. Therefore, it is in users' best interest to utilize multiple search engines. I...
Ryen W. White, Matthew Richardson, Mikhail Bilenko...
WEBDB
2005
Springer
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14 years 3 months ago
Malleable Schemas: A Preliminary Report
Large-scale information integration, and in particular, search on the World Wide Web, is pushing the limits on the combination of structured data and unstructured data. By its ver...
Xin Dong, Alon Y. Halevy
GRC
2010
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
Searching Digital Political Cartoons
The study of cartoons, manga, and graphic novels is of growing importance to humanity scholars. Managing cartoons for scholarly use presents two challenges: searching and understan...
Yejun Wu
VLDB
1991
ACM
134views Database» more  VLDB 1991»
14 years 1 months ago
Extending the Search Strategy in a Query Optimizer
In order to cope efficiently with simple or complex queries as well as different application requirements (e.g., ad-hoc versus repetitive queries), a query optimizer ought to supp...
Rosana S. G. Lanzelotte, Patrick Valduriez
ISR
2010
13 years 8 months ago
Electronic Markets, Search Costs, and Firm Boundaries
We study how electronic markets that facilitate broader inter-firm transactions affect the vertical scope of emerging IT-enabled extended enterprises. We do so by modeling firms...
Ramesh Sankaranarayanan, Arun Sundararajan