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SIGIR
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Risky business: modeling and exploiting uncertainty in information retrieval
Most retrieval models estimate the relevance of each document to a query and rank the documents accordingly. However, such an approach ignores the uncertainty associated with the ...
Jianhan Zhu, Jun Wang, Ingemar J. Cox, Michael J. ...
GLOBE
2009
Springer
14 years 7 days ago
Protecting Data Privacy in Structured P2P Networks
P2P systems are increasingly used for efficient, scalable data sharing. Popular applications focus on massive file sharing. However, advanced applications such as online communiti...
Mohamed Jawad, Patricia Serrano-Alvarado, Patrick ...
IR
2008
13 years 7 months ago
An analysis on document length retrieval trends in language modeling smoothing
Abstract. Document length is widely recognized as an important factor for adjusting retrieval systems. Many models tend to favor the retrieval of either short or long documents and...
David E. Losada, Leif Azzopardi
MIE
2008
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13 years 9 months ago
Reliable Personal Health Records
A number of applications based on personal health records (PHRs) are emerging in the field of health care and wellness. PHRs empower patients by giving them control over their heal...
Ton van Deursen, Paul Koster, Milan Petkovic
ATAL
2010
Springer
13 years 8 months ago
Bootstrapping trust evaluations through stereotypes
In open, dynamic multi-agent systems, agents may form short-term ad-hoc groups, such as coalitions, in order to meet their goals. Trust and reputation are crucial concepts in thes...
Chris Burnett, Timothy J. Norman, Katia P. Sycara