The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
Geography is becoming increasingly important in web search. Search engines can often return better results to users by analyzing features such as user location or geographic terms...
Qingqing Gan, Josh Attenberg, Alexander Markowetz,...
Recent announcement of the MSN Direct Service has demonstrated the feasibility and industrial interest in utilizing wireless broadcast for pervasive information services. To suppo...
Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are very efficient for querying based on key lookups, if only a small number of keys has to be registered by each individual peer. However, building...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolf-Tilo Balk...
Abstract. Modern document collections often contain groups of documents with overlapping or shared content. However, most information retrieval systems process each document separa...
Andrei Z. Broder, Nadav Eiron, Marcus Fontoura, Mi...