Search Computing Trends And Developments

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 The 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. This Book, The Second In The Search Computing Series, Describes The Evolution Of Theories, Technologies, And Methods Related To Search Computing.