Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) are very efficient for querying based on key lookups, if only a small number of keys has to be registered by each individual peer. However, building...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolf-Tilo Balk...
We present a static index pruning method, to be used in ad-hoc document retrieval tasks, that follows a documentcentric approach to decide whether a posting for a given term shoul...
In this paper we present an initial study on the use of both high and low level MPEG-7 descriptions for video retrieval. A brief survey of current XML indexing techniques shows tha...
GikiCLEF focused on the evaluation of the reasoning capabilities of systems to provide right answers for geographically-challenging topics. As we did not have previous experience ...
Nuno Cardoso, David Batista, Francisco J. Ló...
Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) is concerned with the retrieval of documents based on both thematic and geographic content. An important issue in GIR, as for all IR, is rele...