The language modeling approach to retrieval has been shown to perform well empirically. One advantage of this new approach is its statistical foundations. However, feedback, as on...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
We address the inference control problem in data cubes with some data known to users through external knowledge. The goal of inference controls is to prevent exact values of sensi...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store in personal information management systems, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve of...
A Distributed Information Brokering System (DIBS) is a peer-to-peer overlay network that comprises diverse data servers and brokering components helping client queries locate the ...
Fengjun Li, Bo Luo, Peng Liu, Dongwon Lee, Chao-Hs...