Grid-based search technique for massive academic publications

The numerical size of academic publications that are being published in recent years had grown rapidly. Accessing and searching massive academic publications that are distributed over several locations need large amount of computing resources to increase the system performance. Therefore, many grid-based search techniques were proposed to provide flexible methods for searching the distributed extensive data. This paper proposes search technique that is capable of searching the extensive publications by utilizing grid computing technology. The search technique is implemented as interconnected grid services to offer a mechanism to access different data locations. The experimental result shows that the grid-based search technique has enhanced the performance of the search.