One of the principal advantages of parallelizing a rule-based system, or more generally, any A.I. system, is the ability to pursue alternate search paths concurrently. Conventiona...
The dominant existing routing strategies employed in peerto-peer(P2P) based information retrieval(IR) systems are similarity-based approaches. In these approaches, agents depend o...
Abstract Categories and Subject Descriptors: H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval: Clustering and Search Process. General Terms: Algorithms, Design, Human Factors. Keywords. Epis...
— Search and rescue of people in emergency situations, e.g. lost hikers, stranded climbers, or injured skiers has been difficult due to lack of information about their location ...
Of the many P2P file-sharing prototypes in existence, BitTorrent is one of the few that has managed to attract millions of users. BitTorrent relies on other (global) components f...
Johan A. Pouwelse, Pawel Garbacki, Dick H. J. Epem...