This paper develops and analyzes distributed search techniques for use in a peer-to-peer (P2P) network-based Information Retrieval (IR) system. In the absence of a centralized med...
Haizheng Zhang, W. Bruce Croft, Brian Neil Levine,...
The Internet Distance Map Service (IDMaps) [3] provides distance estimates between any pair of hosts connected to the Internet. The IDMaps system comprises two component types: Tr...
We argue that designing overlay services to independently probe the Internet—with the goal of making informed application-specific routing decisions—is an untenable strategy....
The explosive growth of multimedia data poses serious challenges to data storage, management and search. Efficient near-duplicate detection is one of the required technologies for...
Methods for ranking World Wide Web resources according to their position in the link structure of the Web are receiving considerable attention, because they provide the first e...