Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are very efficient for querying based on key lookups. However, building huge term indexes, as required for IR-style keyword search, poses a scalabil...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
While multimedia documents are sequentially presented to users, an information filtering (IF) system is useful to achieve a good retrieval performance in terms of both quality and ...
Dianhui Wang, Xiaodi Huang, Yong-Soo Kim, Joon Shi...
This paper reports the results of a study investigating the relevance criteria used by health care professionals when seeking medical images. Data was collected from 26 participan...
A recommender system must be able to suggest items that are likely to be preferred by the user. In most systems, the degree of preference is represented by a rating score. Given a...
Ranking algorithms, whose goal is to appropriately order a set of objects/documents, are an important component of information retrieval systems. Previous work on ranking algorith...