Search Computing Challenges and Directions
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 serv
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Editorial Board David Hutchison Lancaster University, UK Takeo Kanade Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA Josef Kittler University of Surrey, Guildford, UK Jon M. Kleinberg Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA Alfred Kobsa University of California, Irvine, CA, USA Friedemann Mattern ETH Zurich, Switzerland John C. Mitchell Stanford University, CA, USA Moni Naor Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Oscar Nierstrasz University of Bern, Switzerland C. Pandu Rangan Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Bernhard Steffen TU Dortmund University, Germany Madhu Sudan Microsoft Research, Cambridge, MA, USA Demetri Terzopoulos University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA Doug Tygar University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA Gerhard Weikum Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany
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Search Computing Challenges and Directions
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Volume Editors Stefano Ceri Marco Brambilla Politecnico di Milano Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione Piazza L. da Vinci, 32, 20133 Milano, Italy E-mail: {ceri,mbrambil}@elet.polimi.it
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Preface
Who are the strongest European competitors on software ideas? Who is the best doctor to cure insomnia in a nearby hospital? Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field close to a sunny beach? This information is available on the Web, but no software system can accept such queries nor compute the answer. At most, users can identify sub-problems that can be addressed by specific search engines and interact with each of them serially, but then they have the responsibility of building global answers by manually composing results. Search computing is a new multi-disciplinary discipline which will provide the abstractions, methods, tools and computing systems required to express these queries and to build their answer. The emerging paradigm of software services has so far been neutral t
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