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GIR
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Spatial filters for mobile information retrieval
This paper introduces the concept of spatial filters as an approach to increasing the relevance of the information retrieved by users of mobile information systems. This approach ...
David M. Mountain
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
Landmark-Based Information Storage and Retrieval in Sensor Networks
— For a wide variety of sensor network environments, location information is unavailable or expensive to obtain. We propose a location-free, lightweight, distributed, and data-ce...
Qing Fang, Jie Gao, Leonidas J. Guibas
GIR
2007
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Geographically-aware information retrieval for collections of digitized historical maps
DIGMAP is a project focused on historical digitized maps that will develop a set of Internet services based on reusable open-source software solutions. The main service will provi...
Bruno Martins, José Luis Borbinha, Gilberto...
CIKM
2008
Springer
14 years 27 days ago
Retrievability: an evaluation measure for higher order information access tasks
Evaluation in Information Retrieval (IR) has long focused on effectiveness and efficiency. However, new and emerging access tasks now demand alternative evaluation measures which ...
Leif Azzopardi, Vishwa Vinay
VLDB
2000
ACM
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14 years 2 months ago
Computing Geographical Scopes of Web Resources
Many information resources on the web are relevant primarily to limited geographical communities. For instance, web sites containing information on restaurants, theaters, and apar...
Junyan Ding, Luis Gravano, Narayanan Shivakumar