The success of many online services today depends on the company’s ability to persuade users to take specific actions, such as registering or inviting friends. We examined over 5...
In this paper, we present our preliminary work on a Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) system that utilizes loosely coupled web services and Google EarthTM (GE) to retrieve, e...
Brian M. Tomaszewski, Chi-Chun Pan, Prasenjit Mitr...
Distributed crawling is able to overcome important limitations of the traditional single-sourced web crawling systems. However, the optimal benefit of distributed crawling is usual...
Linkage analysis as an aid to web search has been assumed to be of significant benefit and we know that it is being implemented by many major Search Engines. Why then have few TREC...
: The University of Melbourne carried out experiments in the Terabyte and Web tracks of TREC 2004. We applied a further variant of our impact-based retrieval approach by integratin...