This paper addresses the challenging problem of similarity search over widely distributed ultra-high dimensional data. Such an application is retrieval of the top-k most similar d...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over many s...
This article presents an online cluster using genetic algorithms to increase information retrieval efficiency. The Information Retrieval (IR) is based on the grouping of documents...
Three protocols for gossip-based failure detection services in large-scale heterogeneous clusters are analyzed and compared. The basic gossip protocol provides a means by which fai...
Results clustering in Web Searching is useful for providing users with overviews of the results and thus allowing them to restrict their focus to the desired parts. However, the ta...