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Specialisation dynamics in federated web search

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Kushmerick, Nicholas Khoussainov, Rinat
Abstract	Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of computing resources. A promising way to build such systems involves federations of topic-specific search engines in decentralised search environments. Most of the previous research concentrated on various technical aspects of such environments (e.g. routing of search queries or merging of results from multiple sources). We focus on organisational dynamics: what happens to topical specialisation of search engines in the absence of centralised control, when each engine makes individual and self-interested decisions on its service parameters? We investigate this question in a computational economics framework, where search providers compete for user queries by choosing what topics to index. We provide a formalisation of the competition problem and then analyse theoretically and empirically the specialisation dynamics of such systems.
Starting Page	112
Ending Page	119
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581139780
DOI	10.1145/1031453.1031474
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2004-11-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Subject Keyword	Competition Topic specialisation Federated web search
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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