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Evaluating database selection techniques: a testbed and experiment

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SIGIR '98: Proceedings of the 21st annual international ACM SIGIR conference on Research and development in information retrieval

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https://doi.org/10.1145/290941.290976

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RMIT Univ., Australia and CSIRO
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