TY - EJOU AU - Wang, Hongbin AU - Zhou, Lianke AU - Zhao, Guodong AU - Wang, Nianbin AU - Sun, Jianguo AU - Zheng, Yue AU - Chen, Lei TI - PMS-Sorting: A New Sorting Algorithm Based on Similarity T2 - Computers, Materials \& Continua PY - 2019 VL - 59 IS - 1 SN - 1546-2226 AB - Borda sorting algorithm is a kind of improvement algorithm based on weighted position sorting algorithm, it is mainly suitable for the high duplication of search results, for the independent search results, the effect is not very good and the computing method of relative score in Borda sorting algorithm is according to the rule of the linear regressive, but position relationship cannot fully represent the correlation changes. aimed at this drawback, the new sorting algorithm is proposed in this paper, named PMS-Sorting algorithm, firstly the position score of the returned results is standardized processing, and the similarity retrieval word string with the query results is combined into the algorithm, the similarity calculation method is also improved, through the experiment, the improved algorithm is superior to traditional sorting algorithm. KW - Meta search engine KW - result sorting KW - query similarity KW - Borda sorting algorithm KW - position relationship DO - 10.32604/cmc.2019.04628