Data fusion is the process of merging records from multiple sources which represent the
same real-world object into a single representation. This review of the literature concerns …

Federated search (federated information retrieval or distributed information retrieval) is a
technique for searching multiple text collections simultaneously. Queries are submitted to a …

This paper presents ranx. fuse, a Python library for Metasearch. Built following a user-
centered design, it provides easy-to-use tools for combining the results of multiple search …

The acceptance and usability of context-aware systems have given them the edge of wide
use in various domains and has also attracted the attention of researchers in the area of …

Search engines are exceptionally important tools for accessing information in today's world.
In satisfying the information needs of millions of users, the effectiveness (the quality of the …

Research in Information Retrieval usually shows performanceimprovement when many
sources of evidence are combined to produce a ranking of documents (eg, texts, pictures …

Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and
related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as opposed to …

These days the technique of data fusion has been used extensively in many different
application areas and information retrieval is one of them. As early as 1980's, researchers …

The query-performance prediction task has been described as estimating retrieval
effectiveness in the absence of relevance judgments. The expectations throughout the years …

Many spectrum-based fault localization techniques have been proposed to measure how
likely each program element is the root cause of a program failure. For various bugs, the …