Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries.
Naomi DushayJames C. FrenchCarl LagozePublished in: ACM DL (1999)
Keyphrases
- digital libraries
- data sources
- effective retrieval
- peer to peer
- federated search
- heterogeneous databases
- distributed systems
- communication cost
- multi agent
- distributed environment
- response time
- query processing
- distributed information systems
- query routing
- distributed data
- finding similar
- document repositories
- search mechanism
- document image analysis
- exact match
- distributed information retrieval
- replica selection
- advanced technology
- technology advances
- database
- metadata
- keywords
- data structure
- query evaluation
- database queries
- user queries
- mobile agents
- multimedia
- cooperative
- relevance feedback
- query expansion
- search queries
- query formulation
- cultural heritage
- resource selection
- data integration
- distributed query processing
- multi dimensional
- efficient search
- information resources
- efficient retrieval
- return a ranked list
- query execution