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Search Computing

Challenges and Directions

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  • © 2010

Overview

  • This clearly structured book contains detailed papers on the subject of search computing
  • It focuses on building the answers to complex queries on the Web
  • The papers, written by leading scientists, contain the latest results in the field

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, volume 5950)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Visions

  2. Technology Watch for Search Computing

  3. Issues in Search Computing

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Search computing, which has evolved from service computing, focuses on building the answers to complex search queries by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. The field is multi-disciplinary in nature, and takes advantage of contributions from other research areas such as knowledge representation, human-computer interfaces, psychology, sociology, economics and legal sciences. The book is divided into three parts. The first part includes some visionary contributions on the latest trends in search, which is becoming increasingly task-oriented and is starting to use ontological knowledge in order to manage complex queries. The second part explores background and related technologies, which can be considered as parallel fields of research, useful both for setting the theoretical premises for search computing and for providing a technological framework for building search computing systems and applications. The third part delves into the conceptual and technological problems and issues arising when dealing with search computing as a new search paradigm. It provides a unified view of the results of the Search Computing project as achieved exactly one year after its starting date.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy

    Stefano Ceri, Marco Brambilla

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