Say you are looking for information about a particular person. A search engine returns many pages for that person's name but which pages are about the person you care about, ...
: We believe that much novel insight into the worldwide web can be obtained from taking into account the important fact that it is created, used, and run by selfish optimizing agen...
Georgios Kouroupas, Elias Koutsoupias, Christos H....
: We participated in two tasks: Multi-8 two-years-on retrieval and Multi-8 results merging. For our multi-8 two-years-on retrieval work, simple multilingual ranked lists are first ...
This paper describes an efficient reduction of the learning problem of ranking to binary classification. The reduction guarantees an average pairwise misranking regret of at most t...
—By combining an unstructured protocol with a DHT-based global index, hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) improves search efficiency in terms of query recall and response time. The major c...