Claus-Peter Klas; Norbert Fuhr; André Schaefer (2004).

Evaluating Strategic Support for Information Access in the DAFFODIL System. In Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Proc. European Conference on Digital Libraries (ECDL 2004)

In this paper evaluation results with respect to retrieval effectiveness, efficiency and user satisfaction are presented.

N. Fuhr; N. Gövert; C.-P. Klas (2000).

An Agent-Based Architecture for Supporting High-Level Search Activities in Federated Digital Libraries. In: Proceedings 3rd International Conference of Asian Digital Library. KAIST, Taejon, Korea.

The first, more theoretical paper, describing the ideas of Daffodil and how we will model it.

Peter Mutschke (2001).

Enhancing Information Retrieval in Federated Bibliographic Data Sources Using Author Network Based Stratagems. In: Reserach and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 5th European Conference, ECDL 2001, Darmstadt, Germany, September 4-9, 2001; Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science; 2163. Springer, Heidelberg et al..

This paper presents the coauthor networks in the Daffodil context.

Norbert Fuhr; Claus-Peter Klas; André Schaefer; Peter Mutschke (2002).

Daffodil: An Integrated Desktop for Supporting High-Level Search Activities in Federated Digital Libraries. In: Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. 6th European Conference, ECDL 2002. Springer, Heidelberg et al..

This paper describes the graphical user interface of Daffodil.

H. Nottelmann; N. Fuhr (2003).

Evaluating different methods of estimating retrieval quality for resource selection. In Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval

This paper extends the decision-theoretic framework by two other techniques for estimating retrieval quality. In addition, it contains first evaluation on a 100 collection testbed.

N. Fuhr (1999).

A Decision-Theoretic Approach to Database Selection in Networked IR. ACM Transactions on Information Systems 17(3)

This is the major paper which introduces the decision-theoretic framework for resource selection.

H. Nottelmann; N. Fuhr (2003).

From uncertain inference to probability of relevance for advanced IR applications. In 25th European Conference on Information Retrieval Research (ECIR 2003)

This paper introduces the use of linear and logistic mapping functions and presents an evaluation for several retrieval functions.

Under construction.

N. Fuhr (1999).

Towards Data Abstraction in Networked Information Retrieval Systems. Information Processing and Management 35(2)

This paper defines a formal model of data types with vaguge predicates, linear schemas and uncertain mappings between attributes of heterogeneous schemas.

Norbert Fuhr (2000).

Probabilistic Datalog: Implementing Logical Information Retrieval for Advanced Applications. Journal of the American Society for Information Science 51(2)

This paper gives an informal and formal introduction into syntax and semantics of probabilistic Datalog.

N. Fuhr; T. Rölleke (1998).

HySpirit -- a Probabilistic Inference Engine for Hypermedia Retrieval in Large Databases. In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Extending Database Technology (EDBT)

This paper introductes four-valued probabilistic Datalog, and describes how it can be mapped onto two-valued pDatalog.