Algorithms in distributed information retrieval often rely on accurate knowledge of the size of a collection. The "multiple capture-recapture" method of Shokouhi et al. ...
Recommender Systems are used in various domains to generate personalized information based on personal user data. The ability to preserve the privacy of all participants is an ess...
Distributed hash table (DHT) systems are an important class of peer-to-peer routing infrastructures. They enable scalable wide-area storage and retrieval of information, and will ...
Government agencies globally are facing problems such as illegal immigration, terrorism, and disease diagnosis and control. Solutions to these problems rely heavily on collaborati...
Seema Degwekar, Jeff DePree, Stanley Y. W. Su, How...
In an environment of distributed text collections, the first step in the information retrieval process is to identify which of all available collections are more relevant to a giv...