Search Computing: Challenges and Directions (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783642123092)

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.

Author: Stefano Ceri
ISBN-10: 3642123090
ISBN-13: 9783642123092
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/01/2010
Pages: 321
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.23lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.20w x 0.80d