Abstract. Recent advances in peer to peer (P2P) search algorithms have presented viable structured and unstructured approaches for full-text search. We posit that these existing ap...
Avi Rosenfeld, Claudia V. Goldman, Gal A. Kaminka,...
In this paper, we introduce a geographic similarity operator that computes the relatedness between two geographic places and describe how it is combined with textual ranking. The ...
—User profiling is a fundamental component of any personalization applications. Most existing user profiling strategies are based on objects that users are interested in (i.e., p...
Query-based web search is an integral part of many people’s daily activities. Most do not realize that their search history can be used to identify them (and their interests). I...
The World Wide Web is growing at such a pace that even the biggest centralized search engines are able to index only a small part of the available documents on the Internet. The d...