Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/GravanoG97,
  author    = {Luis Gravano and
               Hector Garcia-Molina},
  editor    = {Matthias Jarke and
               Michael J. Carey and
               Klaus R. Dittrich and
               Frederick H. Lochovsky and
               Pericles Loucopoulos and
               Manfred A. Jeusfeld},
  title     = {Merging Ranks from Heterogeneous Internet Sources},
  booktitle = {VLDB'97, Proceedings of 23rd International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 25-29, 1997, Athens, Greece},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1997},
  isbn      = {1-55860-470-7},
  pages     = {196-205},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/GravanoG97.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/97},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

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2. Surajit Chaudhuri, Luis Gravano: Evaluating Top-k Selection Queries. VLDB 1999: 397-410
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4. Luis Gravano, Yannis Papakonstantinou: Mediating and Metasearching on the Internet. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 21(2): 28-36(1998)
5. Weiyi Meng, King-Lup Liu, Clement T. Yu, Xiaodong Wang, Yuhsi Chang, Naphtali Rishe: Determining Text Databases to Search in the Internet. VLDB 1998: 14-25