In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
The topological properties of a network directly impact the flow of information through a system. In evolving populations, the topology of inter-individual interactions affects th...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
- Multiple distribution trees and multiple description (MD) coding are highly robust since they provide redundancy both in network paths and data. However, MD coded streaming inclu...
Bayesian statistical theory is a convenient way of taking a priori information into consideration when inference is made from images. In Bayesian image detection, the a priori dist...