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Querying with Preferences in a Digital Library
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2006
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
We consider a collection of federated sources of the web, and a community of users that are interested in documents residing in one or more among the federated sources. The search for documents of interest is supported by a mediator that we call a digital library. The library simply indexes all documents that are made available to users by the federated sources. When a user addresses a query to the library, the library returns the URLs of documents satisfying the query. In such a context, one
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