Contents

• List of Figures
• List of Tables
• Introduction
  • The Problem
    • A Model for Searches
    • Query Model System Components
  • Better living through Hybrid-Search
  • Thesis Overview
• Background
  • Previous Work
    • Structured Search
    • Unstructured Search
    • Associative ``Search''
    • Hybrid-Search
      • Hybrid Emulation
      • Loosely-coupled Hybrid-Search Solutions
  • Technologies
    • Haystack
    • Lore
• A Tale of Paper and Straw
  • Documents
    • Document State
  • Straw
    • Hybrid-Search
• The Haystack Data Model
  • General Overview
  • The Mile High View
    • Object Typing
    • The StrawType Class
  • The Weavable Interface and the Straw Class
    • The StrawTies Class
    • Straw Constructors
      • The HaystackID Class
    • Straw Modifiers
    • Straw Accessors
  • The TieWeavable Interface and Tie Class
    • The tie.Causal Class
  • The NeedleWeavable Interface and Needle Class
    • The Promise Class
  • The BaleWeavable Interface and Bale Class
    • The bale.HaystackDocument Class
• Haystack and Lore Integration
  • Representing HDM objects in Lore
  • The HsOEMGenerator Class
  • The HsLore Class
• Conclusions
  • Future Work
• The Haystack Service Model Architecture
  • Service Architecture
    • Service Types
  • The HaystackRootServer
    • The HsService Class
    • The HsNameService
      • Service Naming
  • The Basic Services
    • The HsObjectCreatorService
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsDispatcher Service
      • The StarGraph Class
      • The HDM Event Model
    • The HsConfigService
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsResourceControlService
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsPersistentObjectService
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsCache Service
    • Other Base Services
      • The HsDebug, HsMessage, and HsError Services
  • The Interface Services
    • The Middleman
    • The HsCommandAPI Service
      • The Command Class
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsCommunicator Service
      • Future Improvements
    • The HsCommandLine Service
  • Event Driven Services
  • Data manipulation Services
    • The HsArchive Service
    • The HsIndex Service
    • The HsQuery Service
• UML model of Straw
• Functions of StrawType
• Exceptions
• References
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