Combining Information from Multiple Internet Sources

each of the result sets were investigated. Auction method as the first URL provided the resource
treating about the civil disobedience training. This resource was pointed to by Game theory in the
previous example. It, for instance compares consensus process to voting process. As the second
URL Auction method provided an URL to resource which is an “Executive Decision Services”
company webpage. This company employs experts whom are consultants and coordinators which
are supposed to solve any business conflicts using consensus decision making. Third URL returned
is a webpage of non-profit pacifist organization which seeks to “promote non-violent conflict
resolution skills and processes”. Game theory method returns the same first URL which was
returned by the Auction. It was returned before, for the previous query. The second URL was also
returned before, when the first query was issued. Third URL points to the webpage which is an
online-store. The resource itself is a list of books about team work and conflict resolving at work.
Consensus method as the two top most URLs returned “Executive Decision Services” company
webpage.
Both of the URLs point to, de facto, the same resource but those are still distinguished by the search
engines and thus treated as a different resource. Third page is the glossary of terms related to
conflict. In it we can find short definitions of terms like: “Adversary”, “Consensus”, “Diplomacy”
and etc.
Summarizing if one was to choose the best method in this case it would be hard to select.
But a subjective rank looks as follows:
1. Auction method – provided three URLs of different purpose: company webpage,
page dealing with civil disobedience training (some anarchist/pacifist organization)
stating about good sides of the consensus and a pacifist organization which promote
the peace idea through citizen education.
2. Game theory method – as the first URL provided the same page about civil
disobedience training as did the Auction method, second URL points to resource
which shows the steps of obtaining consensus in the real-life, while third points to
the webpage of online-store.
3. Consensus method – as two top most URLs it provided in fact the same resource. It
means that, in general, search engines had those links ranked as highest. Third page
is the glossary of terms related to conflict.
The following part presents comparison of the algorithms and MySpiders system.
MySpiders Auction Game theory Consensus
Set Coverage 10% 20% 20%
URL to URL 0% 10% 0%
Table 4.2.9 Coverage of methods and MySpiders system for more complex query
The table above presents how result sets returned by algorithms cover MySpiders system
result. MySpiders returned only 5 results for this query. This is probably due to increased
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