Distributed Indexing: A Scalable Mechanism for Distributed Information Retrieval (1991)
| Venue: | In Proceedings of the 14 th Annual SIGIR Conference |
| Citations: | 28 - 1 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Danzig91distributedindexing:,
author = {Peter Danzig and Jongsuk Ahn and John Noll and Katia Obraczka},
title = {Distributed Indexing: A Scalable Mechanism for Distributed Information Retrieval},
booktitle = {In Proceedings of the 14 th Annual SIGIR Conference},
year = {1991},
pages = {220--229},
publisher = {ACM Press}
}
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Abstract
Despite blossoming computer network bandwidths and the emergence of hypertext and CD-ROM databases, little progress has been made towards uniting the world's library-style bibliographic databases. While a few advanced distributed retrieval systems can broadcast a query to hundreds of participating databases, experience shows that local users almost always clog library retrieval systems. Hence broadcast remote queries will clog nearly every system. The premise of this work is that broadcast-based systems do not scale to world-wide systems. This project describes an indexing scheme that will permit thorough yet efficient searches of millions of retrieval systems. Our architecture will work with an arbitrary number of indexing companies and information providers, and, in the market place, could provide economic incentive for cooperation between database and indexing services. We call our scheme distributed indexing, and believe it will help researchers disseminate and locate both publishe...
