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)

 
Search Computing Book Cover

The Books

"Search Computing - Challenges and Directions" (Springer LNCS 5950) provides a unified view of the results of the first year of the project.  [more...]

"Search Computing - Trends and Developments" (Springer LNCS 6585) collects the outcomes of the second year of the project and of the second SeCo Workshop held in May 2010. [more...]

 
 

SeCo Workshops in 2011

After organizing two workshops in Como, we go "on the road" and therefore we organize ExploreWeb at ICWE 2011, Very Large Data Search at VLDB 2011, DBRank also at VLDB 2011, DATAVIEW at ECOWS 2011, and OrdRing at ISWC 2011. Possibly we will apply to conferences in the Fall 2011.[more...]

 
 
Screenshot of Search Computing Demos

The Demonstrators

The SeCo concepts are being implemented in a comprehensive architectural infrastructure. Several demonstrators are already available online (e.g. BioInformatics Demonstrator, Concert Planning Demonstrator, etc.), 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.