The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
Indexing quality has an overwhelming effect on retrieval effectiveness of search engines. In the past few years it has become one of the major challenges in the search engines are...
Software engineers think about an existing software system in terms of high-level models. The high-level models are translated to source code and the concepts represented in these...
The aggregated structure of documents plays a key role in full-text, multimedia, and network Information Retrieval (IR). Considering aggregation provides new querying facilities a...