We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
We propose an approach to content-based Distributed Information Retrieval based on the periodic and incremental centralisation of full-content indices of widely dispersed and auto...
Fabio Simeoni, Murat Yakici, Steve Neely, Fabio Cr...
: A distributed service to model and control contextual information in mobile and ubiquitous computing environments is presented in this paper. We introduce the general user model ...
Query expansion has been shown effective for both single database retrieval and for distributed information retrieval where complete collection information is available. One might...