Mashing Up Search Services

Author

Braga, Daniele ; Ceri, Stefano ; Daniel, Florian ; Martinenghi, Davide

Author_Institution

Politec. di Milano, Milano

Volume

12

Issue

5

fYear

2008

Firstpage

16

Lastpage

23

Abstract

Mashup languages offer new graphic interfaces for service composition. Normally, composition is limited to simple services, such as RSS or Atom feeds, but users can potentially use visual mashup languages for complex service compositions, with typed parameters and well-defined I/O interfaces. Composing search services introduces new issues, however, such as determining the optimal sequence of search invocations and separately composing ranked entries into a globally ranked result. Enabling end users to mash up services through suitable abstractions and tools is a viable option for improving service-based computations.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; search engines; visual languages; Atom feeds; RSS feeds; graphic interfaces; search services; service composition; visual mashup languages; Aging; Computer graphics; Databases; Electronic switching systems; Feeds; Mashups; MySpace; Web services; Wikipedia; YouTube; Service mashups; Web search; Web service orchestration; Web service registration; Web services; query optimization;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Internet Computing, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1089-7801

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MIC.2008.105

Filename

4620090