Participatory search can be defined as a search service framework where each participant takes care of gathering information and contributing indexes to a central location where t...
Giuseppe Attardi, Andrea Esuli, Lucian Hancu, Mari...
Due to the tremendous increase rate and the high change frequency of Web documents, maintaining an up-to-date index for searching purposes (search engines) is becoming a challenge...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Stavros Papastavrou, George S...
We present a new approach in web search engines. The web creates new challenges for information retrieval. The vast improvement in information access is not the only advantage res...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
In this paper we propose an improved algorithm for finding roots of polynomials over finite fields. This makes possible significant speed up of the decoding process of BCH, Reed-S...