We are concerned with the use of Mobile Agents for information retrieval. A multi-agent system is considered; a number of agents are involved in a collective effort to retrieve di...
While query expansion techniques have been shown to improve retrieval performance in a centralized setting, they have not been well studied in a federated setting. In this paper, ...
In the context of computer-assisted plant identification we are facing challenging information retrieval problems because of the very high within-class variability and of the lim...
In this demonstration, we present a prototype content-based dissemination broker, called Sonnet, which is built upon structured overlay network. It combines approximate filtering ...
Advanced Traveler Information Systems (ATIS) require e cient information retrieval and updating in a dynamic environment at di erent geographical scales. ATIS applications are use...