Search Computing: Trends and Developments (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (6585))

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 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 second Search Computing book is divided into eight parts focusing on the search process, interaction design, semantic description, rank join, query processing, tools and mashups, bio-seco, and sustainable exploitation reflecting the many research directions of the Search Computing project (SeCo). Front Matter....Pages - Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The New Frontier of Web Search Technology: Seven Challenges....Pages 3-9 Information Exploration in Search Computing....Pages 10-25 Trends in Search Interaction....Pages 26-32 Front Matter....Pages 33-33 Context and Action in Search Interfaces....Pages 35-45 Desktop, Tabletop or Mobile?....Pages 46-52 Visualization of Multi-domain Ranked Data....Pages 53-69 Front Matter....Pages 71-71 Semantic Resource Framework....Pages 73-84 Automatic Normalization and Annotation for Discovering Semantic Mappings....Pages 85-100 Towards an Ontological Representation of Services in Search Computing....Pages 101-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 The Rank Join Problem....Pages 115-120 Proximity Rank Join in Search Computing....Pages 121-127 Uncertainty in Rank Join....Pages 128-134 Trends in Rank Join....Pages 135-137 Front Matter....Pages 139-139 Efficient Computation of Search Computing Queries....Pages 141-155 Run-Time Adaptivity for Search Computing....Pages 156-166 Front Matter....Pages 167-167 Tools Supporting Search Computing Application Development....Pages 169-181 Distributed User Interface Orchestration: On the Composition of Multi-User (Search) Applications....Pages 182-191 On Development Practices for End Users....Pages 192-200 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Bio-SeCo: Integration and Global Ranking of Biomedical Search Results....Pages 203-214 Workflows for Information Integration in the Life Sciences....Pages 215-225 Front Matter....Pages 201-201 Complex Search, Ranks, and Biological Discovery: A User’s Perspective....Pages 226-235 Front Matter....Pages 237-237 An Experience in Applying User Centered Design to Search Computing....Pages 239-255 Analysis of Business Models for Search Computing....Pages 256-271 Back Matter....Pages - 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. The book has been divided into eight parts, reflecting the main research directions within the Search Computing project. The parts focus on: search as an information exploration task; interaction design issues when dealing with multi-domain search results; modeling and semantic description of search services; the rank-join problem; query processing techniques and architectures; tools and mashups for application development; the application of search computing to bio-informatics; and the exploitation potentials of project results.