A method for image matching from partial blurry images is presented that leverages existing text retrieval algorithms to provide a solution that scales to hundreds of thousands of...
We describe Freenet, a peer-to-peer network application that permits the publication, replication, and retrieval of data while protecting the anonymity of both authors and readers...
Ian Clarke, Oskar Sandberg, Brandon Wiley, Theodor...
Information retrieval emerged as independent research area from traditional database management system more than a decade ago. This was driven by the increasing functional require...
In most large-scale peer-to-peer (P2P) applications, it is necessary to collect vital statistics data — sometimes referred to as logs — from up to millions of peers. Tradition...
Databases of text and text-annotated data constitute a significant fraction of the information available in electronic form. Searching and browsing are the typical ways that users ...