Teruphim: An Engine for Distributed Information Retrieval

Abstract

A Mg software system version called Teraphim is designed by executing a receptionist process that can connect with, and synthesize query results from, a number of librarian processes, each of which manages a single Mg document collection. The relationship between receptionists and librarians is many-to-many, and each librarian may be simultaneously communicating with a number of different receptionists. This organization allows maximal flexibility.