Hierarchical peer to peer networks with multiple directory services are an important architecture for large-scale file sharing due to their effectiveness and efficiency. Recent ...
Similarity searching in text databases with multiple field types is still an open problem. We experimented with CORDIS and we evaluated the effectiveness of many text retrieval me...
When a digital library is decomposed into many geographically distributed repositories,searchefficiencybecomesan issue. Increasing network congestion makes this a compelling issue...
James C. French, Allison L. Powell, Walter R. Crei...
Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...
This paper reports on the underlying IR problems encountered when indexing and searching with the Bulgarian language. For this language we propose a general light stemmer and demon...