Search engines evaluation for P2P based digital libraries

ABSTRACT

Indexing and searching services play a critical role in digital libraries. They are responsible for maintaining an index of the existing resources and responding to search queries. Traditional systems store these indexes using a centralized approach, but recent distributed computing paradigms bring new challenges to the storage of information and query processing. In this paper, we will discuss the new trends in the area of P2P based digital libraries and which challenges they place for these services. In the second part of the paper, we evaluate different engines according to defined objectives and propose changes accordingly.

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INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Search process

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: Distributed systems; Performance evaluation (efficiency and effectiveness)
      H.3.7 Digital Libraries
          Subjects: Systems issues

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Performance

Keywords:
digital libraries, indexing, information retrieval, peer-to-peer computing, search engines