Grid-based information retrieval for the aggregation of legal datasets in online dispute resolution

The Web is a stateless and complex environment when it comes to the retrieval of information from millions of computers connected to the Internet via WWW servers. Information Retrieval (IR) from heterogeneous data sources poses a great challenge as the information of interest is stored in a variety of different formats. Answering an enormous amount of queries is a resource and computational intensive task in ODR (Online Dispute Resolution). Information availability also poses a challenge when it comes to the mediation and arbitration processes in resolving eCommerce and legal disputes. A new Grid-based information retrieval model is proposed for the aggregation and replication of legal datasets from remote machines with indexed-based search facility. Datasets of interests will be indexed with a slight modification to the existing indexing scheme. A new strategy is proposed to deal with similar queries posted over and over again and how the commonality among the XML query trees are exploited and merged for the efficient retrieval of information