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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. SeCo started on November 1st, 2008 and will last 5 years, until October 31, 2013.


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. [more...]



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.

The Demo
The SeCo concepts are being implemented in a comprehensive architectural
infrastructure. A demonstration of a search scenario on Concerts + Hotels + Restaurants + OtherEvents is already available online and allows to experiment the join of services, the exploratory paradigm, and the multiple visualization of results (tabular, map, and parallel coordinates).


Workshop
The next SeCo workshop will be held in Milano and Como, Italy, on May 25-28, 2010. The workshop is invitation-only and will be organized through half-days discussion on the various "hot topics" of the project. Sessions will include: Search as a Process, Theory, Semantic Query Language, Scalable Execution Engine, Tools and Mashups, Demonstrations and Applications. The detailed program will be available soon.

See the previous  workshop agenda.



The materials
All the materials produced by the project are available online. You can find invited talks, meeting presentations, course materials, and so on.

Technology watch blog
The technology watch blog is a repository of classified links to news, products, and researches that are relevant for Search Computing.
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The Group