Focused web crawlers have recently emerged as an alternative to the well-established web search engines. While the well-known focused crawlers retrieve relevant webpages, there ar...
Martin Ester, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Schuber...
With the growing amount of information being digitized, users find it difficult to obtain the most relevant information that is hidden in the deluge of information returned to the...
The empirical investigation of the effectiveness of information retrieval (IR) systems requires a test collection, a set of query topics, and a set of relevance judgments made by ...
Peer-to-Peer (P2P) computing has been increasingly gaining interest. P2P architectures are no longer just used for sharing music files over the InP2P middleware systems attempt to...
Roman Kurmanowytsch, Engin Kirda, Clemens Kerer, S...
Photo community sites such as Flickr and Picasa Web Album host a massive amount of personal photos with millions of new photos uploaded every month. These photos constitute an ove...
Liangliang Cao, Jie Yu, Jiebo Luo, Thomas S. Huang