Search is a fundamental activity in software development. However, to search source code efficiently, it is not sufficient to implement a traditional full text search over a base ...
Users of Web search engines are often forced to sift through the long ordered list of document “snippets” returned by the engines. The IR community has explored document cluste...
—Although popular text search engines allow users to retrieve similar web pages, source code search engines do not have this feature. Detecting similar applications is a notoriou...
In this paper, we develop new heuristic procedures for the maximum diversity problem (MDP). This NPhard problem has a significant number of practical applications such as environm...
Recent researchhas studied howto measurethe size of a searchengine, in terms of the number of pages indexed. In this paper, we consider a di erent measure for search engines, name...
Monika Rauch Henzinger, Allan Heydon, Michael Mitz...