Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies

Summary: gGlOSS extends GlOSS from Boolean to vector-space retrieval, using database statistics to rank useful text sources for a query. Hierarchical brokers yield a tiny, widely replicable top-level directory; evaluated with real queries over 53 databases. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: h730a19c6e32e8052
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 9.0976926e-05
Overall Rank: 2,061 | 86.15%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Luis Gravano (Stanford University)
2. Héctor García-Molina (Stanford University)

BibTeX Citation

@article{gravano_vldb95,
        title = {{Generalizing GlOSS to Vector-Space Databases and Broker Hierarchies}},
        author = {Gravano, Luis and García-Molina, Héctor},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {78--89},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 8 of 8 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
686	Optimizing Queries over Multimedia Repositories	1996	SIGMOD	0.00014775707
1,631	Automatic Discovery of Language Models for Text Databases	1999	SIGMOD	0.00010022634
1,655	Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet	1998	VLDB	9.9733472e-05
5,137	STARTS: Stanford Proposal for Internet Meta-Searching	1997	SIGMOD	6.2582423e-05
5,319	Object-level Vertical Search	2007	CIDR	6.182759e-05
9,108	Efficient and Effective Metasearch for Text Databases Incorporating Linkages among Documents	2001	SIGMOD	5.228221e-05
12,753	An Access Cost-Aware Approach for Object Retrieval over Multiple Sources	2010	VLDB	4.9793485e-05
12,931	AllInOneNews: Development and Evaluation of a Large-Scale News Metasearch Engine	2007	SIGMOD	4.9793485e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 1 of 1 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,119	The Effectiveness of GLOSS for the Text Database Discovery Problem	1994	SIGMOD	6.7952842e-05

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