Search Computing
Search Computing (Seco) is a project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), responding to the 2008 Call for "IDEAS Advanced Grants", a program dedicated to the support of investigation-driven frontier research.
The Challenge | The Book | The Demonstrators | The Workshop | Materials | The Blog
The Challenge
Search computing focuses on building the answers to complex search queries like "Where can I attend an interesting conference in my field close to a sunny beach?" by interacting with a constellation of cooperating search services, using ranking and joining of results as the dominant factors for service composition. By leveraging the peculiar features of search services, the project devises query approaches, execution plans, plan optimization techniques, query configuration tools, and exploratory user interfaces. [more...].
Stefano Ceri presented Search Computing in a keynote at the TOOLS/ICMT 2010 conference.
Watch the video (Courtesy of the Tools Series Conferences)
The Book
"Search Computing - Challenges and Directions" (Springer LNCS 5950) provides a unified view of the results of the first year of the project. The first part includes some visionary contributions, the second part explores background and related technologies, and the third part delves into the conceptual and technological search computing problems and issues [more...]
The Second Search Computing Workshop
The Second Workshop on Search Computing Challenges and Directions has been held in Milano and Como, Italy, on May 25-31, 2010. The workshop has been sub-structured into several sessions, focused on the various "hot topics" of the project.[more...]
The Demonstrators
The SeCo concepts are being implemented in a comprehensive architectural infrastructure. Several demonstrators are already available online, so to allow first-hand experiments with the join of services, the exploratory paradigm, the multiple visualization of results (tabular, map, and parallel coordinates), and the functioning of the SeCo Execution Engine. [more...]
Available Materials
All the materials produced by the project are available online. You can find publications, deliverables, invited talks, meeting presentations, course materials, and so on.
The Search Computing Blog
The technology watch blog is a repository of classified links to news, products, and researches that are relevant for Search Computing.