In this paper we show how imposing an organization (topology and search mechanism) on agents in a peerto-peer network can improve system performance. The organizational structure ...
The search for relevant information is often hindered by the initial difficulty in formulating precise requests, and because much knowledge is actually tacit and thus not easily ac...
The goal of contextual information retrieval (CIR) is to better meet the user's needs by delivering him information adapted to his specific search context. This paper presents...
Ranking function performance reached a plateau in 1994. The reason for this is investigated. First the performance of BM25 is measured as the proportion of queries satisfied on th...
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...