Time Complexity Analysis of Boolean Query Formulation Algorithms
Nam‐Ho Kim, Donald E. Brown, James C. French · The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society · 1997
Performance of an algorithm can be mesaurde from serval aspects.Suppose thre is a query formulation al-gorithm.Even though this algorithm shows high retrival performance, ie, high recall and percision, retriveing items can rake a long time.In this study, we time complexity of automatic query reformulation algorithms, named the query Tree, DNF method, and Dillon's method, and comparethem in theoretical and practical aspects using a tral-time performance)the absolute times for each algorithm to fromulate a query)in a Sun SparcStation 2. In experiments using three test sets, CSCM, CISI, and Medlars, the query Tree algorithm was the fastest among the three algorithms tested.