This paper proposes GBM (gravitation-based model), a physical model for information retrieval inspired by Newton’s theory of gravitation. A mapping is built in this model from c...
Many higher education institutions are searching for cost effective tools for the delivery of a feature rich, synchronous online learning environment. While there are several comm...
Both Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (MANETs) and Peer-toPeer (P2P) Networks are decentralized and self-organizing networks with dynamic topology and responsible for routing queries in a d...
Leonardo B. Oliveira, Isabela G. Siqueira, Daniel ...
Language Modeling (LM) has been successfully applied to Information Retrieval (IR). However, most of the existing LM approaches only rely on term occurrences in documents, queries...
Jing Bai, Dawei Song, Peter Bruza, Jian-Yun Nie, G...
XML documents are frequently used in applications such as business transactions and medical records involving sensitive information. Typically, parts of documents should be visibl...
Naizhen Qi, Michiharu Kudo, Jussi Myllymaki, Hamid...