While peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing is a powerful and cost-effective content distribution model, most paid-for digital-content providers (CPs) use direct download to deliver th...
Alex Sherman, Angelos Stavrou, Jason Nieh, Angelos...
An expert finding system allows a user to type a simple text query and retrieve names and contact information of individuals that possess the expertise expressed in the query. Thi...
Peer-to-peer grids aim to build computational grids encompassing thousands of sites. To achieve this scale, such systems cannot rely on trust or off-line negotiations among partic...
Miranda Mowbray, Francisco Vilar Brasileiro, Nazar...
In this paper we study in-network query processing in disconnected mobile environments, where both ad-hoc communication and infrastructure communication are available. Depending o...
We propose a new probabilistic approach to information retrieval based upon the ideas and methods of statistical machine translation. The central ingredient in this approach is a ...