We discuss information retrieval methods that aim at serving a diverse stream of user queries such as those submitted to commercial search engines. We propose methods that emphasi...
Hongyuan Zha, Zhaohui Zheng, Haoying Fu, Gordon Su...
Many web documents refer to specific geographic localities and many people include geographic context in queries to web search engines. Standard web search engines treat the geogra...
Subodh Vaid, Christopher B. Jones, Hideo Joho, Mar...
A heterogeneous community of practice spans many disciplines, industries and professions. Members of these communities are united by common research, products and experiences but ...
Sensor-mission assignment involves the allocation of sensor and other information-providing resources to missions in order to cover the information needs of the individual tasks in...
Mario Gomez, Alun D. Preece, Matthew P. Johnson, G...
Abstract-The information era has brought with it the wellknown problem of 'Information Explosion'. There are many and varied search engines on the Internet but it is stil...