We describe WebCLEF, the multilingual web track, that was introduced at CLEF 2005. We provide details of the tasks, the topics, and the results of WebCLEF participants. The mixed ...
An interest group-based P2P browser cache collaborative system, named IntraCache, is proposed in the paper. IntraCache is scalable, resilient to node failures and easy to manage n...
Efficient full-text searching is a big challenge in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) system. Recently, Distributed Hash Table (DHT) becomes one of the reliable communication schemes for P2P. Som...
Service discovery and its automation are some of the key features that a large scale, open distributed system must provide so that clients and users may take advantage of shared re...
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...