Abstract. We consider the use of a cluster system for managing autonomous databases. In order to improve the performance of read-only queries, we strive to exploit user requirement...
Within the emergent Semantic Web framework, the use of traditional web search engines based on keywords provided by the users is not adequate anymore. Instead, new methods based o...
In order to implement both the efficiency and security in the Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network, we design a trusted small world overlay P2P network with the role based and reputation bas...
Abstract. We design and validate simulators for generating queries and relevance judgments for retrieval system evaluation. We develop a simulation framework that incorporates exis...
Bouke Huurnink, Katja Hofmann, Maarten de Rijke, M...
Personalization systems exploit preferences for providing users with only relevant data from the huge volume of information that is currently available. We consider preferences th...