On How to Merge Sorted Lists Coming from Different Web Search Tools

Authors

Ronald R. Yager
Vladik Kreinovich, The University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

1-1998

Comments

Technical Report: UTEP-CS-98-1

Published in Soft Computing, 1999, Vol. 3, pp. 83-88.

Abstract

Different web search tools often complement each other. So, if we want to have a good coverage of all relevant web items, a reasonable strategy is to use different search tools and then merge the resulting lists. How to merge them? In this paper, we describe reasonable axioms for the merging procedure and describe all mergings that satisfy these reasonable axioms.