Short search engine queries do not provide contextual information, making it difficult for traditional search engines to understand what users are really requesting. One approach ...
Ajith Kodakateri Pudhiyaveetil, Susan Gauch, Hiep ...
This paper describes the development and evaluation of enhancements to the specialized information retrieval capabilities of a multimodal reporting system. The system enables coll...
Keith J. Miller, Sarah McLeod, Elizabeth Schroeder...
As the Web has evolved into a data-rich repository, with the standard "page view," current search engines are increasingly inadequate. While we often search for various ...
Existing DHT-based file systems use consistent hashing to assign file blocks to random machines. As a result, a user task accessing an entire file or multiple files needs to r...
Jeffrey Pang, Phillip B. Gibbons, Michael Kaminsky...
In this paper we show how imposing an organization (topology and search mechanism) on agents in a peerto-peer network can improve system performance. The organizational structure ...