TOIS
2008
13 years 10 months ago
2008
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
SIGIR
1999
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
1999
ACM
Abstract We compare the performance of two database selection algorithms reported in the literature. Their performance is compared using a common testbed designed specifically for ...
SIGIR
2000
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2000
ACM
The proliferation of online information resources increases the importance of effective and efficient distributed searching. Distributed searching is cast in three parts – datab...
ICDE
2004
IEEE
15 years 7 days ago
2004
IEEE
An ever increasing amount of valuable information is stored in Web databases, "hidden" behind search interfaces. To save the user's effort in manually exploring eac...