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Cumulative duality in designing information brokers

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1998)

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The focus of this paper is information brokers within Information Discovery (ID). We describe Cumulative Duality matrices, an instrument to deal with design criteria for such information brokers. ID is the synthesis of Information Retrieval and Information Filtering, where information brokers act as middle-agents. There are numerous design criteria for information brokers. Since these stem from ID, they exhibit a dual nature. The duality of the criteria is shown to be cumulative. In the form of a matrix, cumulative duality can be used as a design instrument for information brokers.

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  1. Computing Science Institute, University of Nijmegen, Toernooiveld 1, NL-6525, ED Nijmegen, The Netherlands

    Bernd Wondergem, Patrick van Bommel & Theo van der Weide

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Wondergem, B., van Bommel, P., van der Weide, T. (1998). Cumulative duality in designing information brokers. In: Quirchmayr, G., Schweighofer, E., Bench-Capon, T.J. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1460. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0054474

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