Using Query Mediators for Distributed Searching in Federated Digital Libraries
Naomi DushayJames C. FrenchCarl LagozePublished in: CoRR (1999)
Keyphrases
- digital libraries
- data sources
- effective retrieval
- federated search
- peer to peer
- communication cost
- heterogeneous databases
- distributed systems
- metadata
- multi agent
- search mechanism
- query processing
- distributed information retrieval
- finding similar
- advanced technology
- response time
- user queries
- distributed query processing
- keywords
- query expansion
- database
- data integration
- distributed data
- resource discovery
- range queries
- efficient search
- multimedia
- efficient retrieval
- resource selection
- federated databases
- cultural heritage
- query terms
- distributed information systems
- technology advances
- relevance feedback
- data model
- databases
- query routing
- replica selection
- approximate matches
- query execution
- search queries
- data objects
- query evaluation
- distributed environment
- mobile agents
- document collections
- user interaction
- sensor networks
- cooperative