Optimizing and focusing search and results ranking in P2P networks becomes more and more important with the increasing size of these networks. Even though a few approaches have al...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Wolfgang Nejdl, Oana Scurt...
A hybrid algorithm is devised to boost the performance of complete search on under-constrained problems. We suggest to use random variable selection in combination with restarts, ...
This paper provides an overview of the newly launched Book Search Track at INEX 2007 (BookSearch’07), its participants, tasks, book corpus, test topics and relevance assessments...
Full-Text XML search is a difficult problem due to its structural and textual constrains. The latter being individually well explored topics, lack mechanisms of integration with e...
Abstract. This paper concerns document ranking in information retrieval. In information retrieval systems, the widely accepted probability ranking principle (PRP) suggests that, fo...