Closing the semantic gap in content based image retrieval (CBIR) basically requires the knowledge of the user's intention which is usually translated into a sequence of quest...
We present an algorithm that minimizes the expected cost of indirect binary search for data with non-constant access costs, such as disk data. Indirect binary search means that sor...
Eduardo F. Barbosa, Gonzalo Navarro, Ricardo A. Ba...
Abstract. We propose a generative model for automatic query reformulations from an initial query using the underlying subtopic structure of top ranked retrieved documents. We addre...
Debasis Ganguly, Johannes Leveling, Gareth J. F. J...
Abstract. An electronic signature is considered to be valid, if the signature is mathematically correct and if the signer's public key is classified as authentic. While the fi...
Algorithms in distributed information retrieval often rely on accurate knowledge of the size of a collection. The "multiple capture-recapture" method of Shokouhi et al. ...