Recently, mean-variance analysis has been proposed as a novel paradigm to model document ranking in Information Retrieval. The main merit of this approach is that it diversifies t...
Guido Zuccon, Leif Azzopardi, Keith van Rijsbergen
Peer-to-peer (P2P) has become an important computing model because of its adaptation, self-organization and autonomy etc. But efficient organization of the nodes in P2P networks i...
Wei Zheng, Sheng Zhang, Yi Ouyang, Fillia Makedon,...
According to the traditional conception of the mind, semantical content is perhaps the most important feature distinguishing mental from non-mental systems. And this traditional co...
Opinion finding is a challenging retrieval task, where it has been shown that it is especially difficult to improve over a strongly performing topic-relevance baseline. In this pa...
Rodrygo L. T. Santos, Ben He, Craig Macdonald, Iad...
— A radio frequency identification (RFID) system consists of a set of readers and several objects, equipped with small computer chips, called tags. In a dense RFID system, where...
Amir Hamed Mohsenian Rad, Vahid Shah-Mansouri, Vin...