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Improved Corporate Search Engine for the National (Australian) Spatial Information Management System: Case Study
Author(s) -
Crawford Richard,
Nesterov Sergey
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2009.tb01037.x
Subject(s) - search engine , computer science , search analytics , relevance (law) , search oriented architecture , context (archaeology) , key (lock) , information retrieval , web search query , paleontology , computer security , biology , political science , law
Paper presents case study of the evolution of the National Spatial Information Management System (NSIMS). It also describes trade‐off analysis approach used to compare different Search Engines for NSIMS. Paper addresses design considerations of the Improved Corporate Search Engine (ICSE) recently developed in Australia. The architecture of the NSIMS has been described, as well as existing search engine capabilities and limitations. Two key areas for search engine improvements have been identified: (1) search context information usage for data relevance criteria application in a search algorithm; (2) user interfaces for entering search requests and query results presentations. Paper presents technical details of ICSE implementation and discussion of characteristics of the proposed improvements in the identified areas. Practical evaluation technique of the search engine efficiency has been proposed and results of trade‐off analysis discussed. Paper sections: National Spatial Information System Overview Existing Search Engine Capabilities and NSIMS Limitations The Research Problem and Solution Approach System and Data Analysis Trade‐off Study between Existing and Proposed Search Engine Conclusion