Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources
Summary: Meta-ranking over heterogeneous, autonomous sources; defines a necessary-and-sufficient condition for a source to yield top-k results without inspecting all items. Gives an algorithm to extract top objects from compliant sources, enabling meta-brokers to harmonize diverse source rankings. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
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Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 5 of 5 citing papers.
| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 805 | Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00016437265 |
| 1,033 | Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00014543835 |
| 7,136 | Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems | 2003 | VLDB | 4.8220711e-05 |
| 8,691 | Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents | 2001 | SIGMOD | 4.466355e-05 |
| 12,447 | AllInOneNews: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale News Metasearch Engine | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1945683e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
Showing 3 of 3 cited papers.
Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 72 | Combining Fuzzy Information from Multiple Systems | 1996 | PODS | 0.00058577335 |
| 195 | Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00035406558 |
| 3,734 | STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching | 1997 | SIGMOD | 6.8095787e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,050 | Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation | 2006 | SIGMOD | 5.2360729e-05 |
| 127 | Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00044642203 |
| 1,258 | Ordering the Attributes of Query Results | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00013013676 |
| 12,088 | Rank Discovery From Web Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 1,616 | Relational link-based ranking | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00011128652 |
| 5,700 | Rank aggregation with ties: Experiments and Analysis | 2015 | VLDB | 5.365274e-05 |
| 8,691 | Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents | 2001 | SIGMOD | 4.466355e-05 |
| 13,602 | Information Discovery in Loosely Integrated Data | 2007 | SIGMOD | - |
| 12,280 | Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1945683e-05 |
| 2,385 | Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties | 2004 | PODS | 8.9247846e-05 |