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ECIR
2009
Springer
15 years 10 months ago
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval: Techniques and Evaluation
Synchronous Collaborative Information Retrieval refers to systems that support multiple users searching together at the same time in order to satisfy a shared information need. To ...
Colum Foley, Alan F. Smeaton
ESORICS
2009
Springer
15 years 7 months ago
Private Information Retrieval Techniques for Enabling Location Privacy in Location-Based Services
Abstract. The ubiquity of smartphones and other location-aware handheld devices has resulted in a dramatic increase in popularity of locationbased services (LBS) tailored to user l...
Ali Khoshgozaran, Cyrus Shahabi
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 6 months ago
Retrieval evaluation with incomplete information
This paper examines whether the Cranfield evaluation methodology is robust to gross violations of the completeness assumption (i.e., the assumption that all relevant documents wi...
Chris Buckley, Ellen M. Voorhees
ECIR
2008
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Computing Information Retrieval Performance Measures Efficiently in the Presence of Tied Scores
Abstract. The Information Retrieval community uses a variety of performance measures to evaluate the effectiveness of scoring functions. In this paper, we show how to adapt six pop...
Frank McSherry, Marc Najork
ECIR
2003
Springer
15 years 2 months ago
Evaluating Peer-to-Peer Networking for Information Retrieval within the Context of Meta-searching
Peer-to-peer (P2P) computing has shown an unexpected growth and development during the recent years. P2P networking is being applied from B2B enterprise solutions to more simple, e...
Iraklis A. Klampanos, James J. Barnes, Joemon M. J...