Opportunities from open source search

Internet search has a strong business model that permits a free service to users, so it is difficult to see why, if at all, there should be open source offerings as well. This paper first discusses open source search, and a rationale for the computer science community at large to get involved. Becau...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inIAT 2005: 2005 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology (19-22 September 2005/Compiegne, France) pp. 2 - 8
Main Authors Buntine, W., Aberer, K., Podnar, I., Rajman, M.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 2005
Subjects
Advertising
Business communication
Companies
Computer science
Data mining
Information technology
Intelligent agent
Peer to peer computing
Search engines
Web and internet services
Online AccessGet full text
ISBN0769524168
9780769524160
DOI10.1109/IAT.2005.113

Cover

More Information
Summary:Internet search has a strong business model that permits a free service to users, so it is difficult to see why, if at all, there should be open source offerings as well. This paper first discusses open source search, and a rationale for the computer science community at large to get involved. Because there is no shortage of core open source components for at least some of the tasks involved, the Alvis Consortium is building infrastructure for open source search engines using peer-to-peer and subject specific technology as its core, based on this rationale. We view open source search as a rich future playground in which information extraction and retrieval components can be used and intelligent agents can operate.
ISBN:0769524168
9780769524160
DOI:10.1109/IAT.2005.113