We consider the problem of building a P2P-based search engine for massive document collections. We describe a prototype system called ODISSEA (Open DIStributed Search Engine Archi...
Modeling and recognizing landmarks at world-scale is a
useful yet challenging task. There exists no readily available
list of worldwide landmarks. Obtaining reliable visual
mode...
Yantao Zheng, Ming Zhao 0003, Yang Song, Hartwig A...
When a query is submitted to a metasearch engine, decisions are made with respect to the underlying search engines to be used, what modifications will be made to the query, and ho...
Eric J. Glover, Steve Lawrence, William P. Birming...
Three-dimensional shape retrieval is a problem of current interest in several different fields, especially in the mechanical engineering domain. There exists a large body of work ...
In this paper, we investigate the problem of improving the relevance of a Web search engine by adapting it to the dynamic needs of the user. We examine a representative case of su...