This work tries to analyze the variation in the performance of information retrieval systems which is due to the changes in the index terms frequency.

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Abstract: "Traditional query optimizers produce a fixed query evaluation plan based on assumptions about data distribution and processor workloads.

Results indicate that the treatment was effective in eliciting feelings of cost consciousness and that searchers modified their behaviour in response to the treatment.