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On how to merge sorted lists coming from different web search tools

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 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 them 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.

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  1. Machine Intelligence Institute, Iona College, 715 North Avenue, New Rochelle, NY 10801-18903, USA, , , , , , US

    R. R. Yager

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso, TX 79968, USA, , , , , , US

    V. Kreinovich

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Yager, R., Kreinovich, V. On how to merge sorted lists coming from different web search tools. Soft Computing 3, 83–88 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s005000050056

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