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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 802 | Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries | 1999 | VLDB | 0.00016440813 |
| 1,057 | Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet | 1998 | VLDB | 0.00014376054 |
| 7,134 | Distributed Top-N Query Processing with Possibly Uncooperative Local Systems | 2003 | VLDB | 4.8174665e-05 |
| 8,688 | Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents | 2001 | SIGMOD | 4.4620588e-05 |
| 12,456 | AllInOneNews: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale News Metasearch Engine | 2007 | SIGMOD | 4.1905499e-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 | 0.00058498396 |
| 195 | Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories | 1996 | SIGMOD | 0.00035317524 |
| 3,737 | STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching | 1997 | SIGMOD | 6.8030747e-05 |
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Semantically Similar Papers
| Overall Rank | Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6,054 | Ranking Objects by Exploiting Relationships: Computing Top-K over Aggregation | 2006 | SIGMOD | 5.2310615e-05 |
| 127 | Querying Heterogeneous Information Sources Using Source Descriptions | 1996 | VLDB | 0.00044607231 |
| 12,096 | Rank Discovery From Web Databases | 2013 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 1,258 | Ordering the Attributes of Query Results | 2006 | SIGMOD | 0.00013001902 |
| 1,633 | Relational link-based ranking | 2004 | VLDB | 0.00011062304 |
| 5,689 | Rank aggregation with ties: Experiments and Analysis | 2015 | VLDB | 5.3706419e-05 |
| 8,688 | Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents | 2001 | SIGMOD | 4.4620588e-05 |
| 12,288 | Building Ranked Mashups of Unstructured Sources with Uncertain Information | 2010 | VLDB | 4.1905499e-05 |
| 13,615 | Information Discovery in Loosely Integrated Data | 2007 | SIGMOD | - |
| 2,384 | Comparing and Aggregating Rankings with Ties | 2004 | PODS | 8.9177815e-05 |