Crosslingual Information Retrieval (CLIR) usually requires query translation and, due to named entities in the case of IR, query translation requires a good transliteration system ...
Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Abstract. Many theoretical PIR (Private Information Retrieval) constructions have been proposed in the past years. Though information theoretically secure, most of them are impract...
Shuhong Wang, Xuhua Ding, Robert H. Deng, Feng Bao
Full-text information retrieval systems have traditionally been designed for archival environments. They often provide little or no support for adding new documents to an existing...
Abstract. Peer-to-Peer networks are comprised of multiple independently administered computers (peers) that cooperate via a common protocol in order to achieve a goal common to the...