Queries describe the users' search intent and therefore they play an essential role in the context of ranking for information retrieval and Web search. However, most of exist...
The aim of this work is to index images in domain specific databases using colors computed from the object of interest only, instead of the whole image. The main problem in this t...
Link Analysis has shown great potential in improving the performance of web search. PageRank and HITS are two of the most popular algorithms. Most of the existing link analysis al...
To exploit the similarity information hidden in the hyperlink structure of the web, this paper introduces algorithms scalable to graphs with billions of vertices on a distributed ...
Abstract. Protein homology prediction is a crucial step in templatebased protein structure prediction. The functions that rank the proteins in a database according to their homolog...