In contrast to traditional document retrieval, a web page as a whole is not a good information unit to search because it often contains multiple topics and a lot of irrelevant inf...
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Without a well formulated and structured question, it can be very difficult and time consuming for physicians to identify appropriate resources and search for the best available ev...
Folksonomies have shown interesting potential for improving information discovery and exploration. Recent folksonomy systems investigate on the use of tag assignments, which combi...
Fabian Abel, Nicola Henze, Daniel Krause, Matthias...
In retrieval, indexing and classification of multimedia data an efficient information fusion of the different modalities is essential for the system’s overall performance. Sinc...