| Search Computing: Challenges and Directions 2010 Edition Contributor(s): Ceri, Stefano (Editor), Brambilla, Marco (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3642123090 ISBN-13: 9783642123092 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $52.24 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Information Technology - Computers | Programming - Algorithms - Computers | Software Development & Engineering - General |
| Dewey: 004.015 |
| Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science: State-Of-The-Art Survey |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.2" (1.23 lbs) 321 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |