A system for the acquisition, storage, indexing, and retrieval of map images is presented. The input to this system are raster images of separate map layers and map composites. A ...
In this article the activities of the INEX 2005 Multimedia track are reported. We succesfully realized our objective, to provide an evaluation platform for the evaluation of retrie...
We describe DSPHERE1 - a decentralized system for crawling, indexing, searching and ranking of documents in the World Wide Web. Unlike most of the existing search technologies tha...
Bhuvan Bamba, Ling Liu, James Caverlee, Vaibhav Pa...
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining increasing popularity as a scalable means to share data among a large number of autonomous nodes. In this paper, we consider the case in whic...
: Efficient information sharing is very important for emergency and rescue operations. These operations often have to be performed in environments where no communication infrastruc...