DCS Technical Report Search Help

To use the DCS technical report search engine, you must select at least one database to be searched. The available databases at this time are:

• DCS: Department of Computer Science
• CSRG: Computer Systems Research Group
• DKBS: Data and Knowledge Base Systems
• NA: Numerical Analysis
• THEORY: Theory of Computation

If the keyword input box is left blank, instead of searching for keywords, all technical reports in the specified database(s) will be shown. In this case, the search fields that are selected (if any) will be ignored.

When a keyword search is performed, you may choose from the following search fields: Title, Author, Date, and Technical Report Number. Alternatively, you may select All Fields to indicate that you would like to search all of the above four fields. It may be helpful to view the list of all technical reports, if you are unsure of the format of the text in these fields.

If more than one keyword is entered, the search engine interprets the space between words as an OR. If you would like to include a space between words in your search, you must enclose the words within double quotes.

Please type in parts of names or words if you are unsure of their correct spelling. This is not a token-based search. All partially matching patterns will be revealed.

If there are technical reports that have the same number of matches, this technical report search engine will list the matching technical reports in order of the largest number of matches, followed by the largest total number of matching characters in the keyword(s).

Case

The user of this search may choose a case insensitive search where no distinction is made between uppercase and lowercase characters, or a Case Sensitive search where matches are only shown if the case is identical.

Format

The user may choose between three different output formats. The Citation format shows the entries in bibliographic form. The BibTeX format prints the entries in a form suitable for inclusion in the bibliography of a LaTeX document. If Count Only is chosen, a count of the total number of matching technical reports is displayed.

Max. Matches

The user may specify the maximum number of matching technical reports that will be displayed on the screen. The options for this field are 10, 40, 100, and ALL. If ALL is selected, then all technical reports will be displayed.

When the technical report search generates a match, a web page that lists the matching technical report(s) will be shown using the specified format. If the technical report has a hypertext link, this indicates that a copy of this technical report is available electronically.

The link may be to a postscript file (which may be compressed), or to the FTP directory that corresponds to the technical report. If the link is to an FTP directory, you should start by examining the README file in the directory (if it exists). Each directory usually contains a number of postscript files comprising the contents of the technical report.

The keyword input box allows a maximum of 300 characters to be entered for a search. The HTML form will not accept any more than this number of characters.

Only the first 20 keywords entered will be considered in the search. The remaining keywords will be ignored.

The maximum length allowed for a keyword is 80 characters. Characters beyond 80 will be ignored.

You may press "submit" below to activate the specified technical report search. Notice that a keyword box may contain any combination of words that may or may not be enclosed in double quotes. Only spaces included in double quotes will be considered as part of the keywords in the technical report search.

• Search for a Single Author
  
  
• Search for a Single Word in Title Field
• Search for Reports in a Certain Year
• Search for more than one word
  
  
• Search for words containing spaces
  
  
• A combination