In this paper we present an initial study on the use of both high and low level MPEG-7 descriptions for video retrieval. A brief survey of current XML indexing techniques shows tha...
PageRank (PR) is one of the most popular ways to rank web pages. However, as the Web continues to grow in volume, it is becoming more and more difficult to crawl all the available...
We consider the problem of learning a ranking function, that is a mapping from instances to rankings over a finite number of labels. Our learning method, referred to as ranking by...
: Some measures such as mean average precision and recall level precision are considered as good system-oriented measures, because they concern both precision and recall that are t...
We investigate how to support ranked keyword search in a Parallel Search Cluster Network, which is a newly proposed peer-to-peer network overlay. In particular, we study how to e...