Local search has become a hot topic recently in information retrieval research area. How to retrieve geographical information correctly and efficiently is a key challenge to locat...
Zhisheng Li, Chong Wang 0002, Xing Xie, Xufa Wang,...
The AnyInformationHiding design pattern models the concept of information hiding and the interactions between parties associated with it in any application. Information hiding is ...
This paper presents a new paradigm for information theory which is a synthesis of Barwise-Seligman’s qualitative theory and Shannon’s quantitative theory. The new paradigm is ...
In business, the retrieval of up-to-date, or fresh, information is very important. It is difficult for conventional search engines based on a centralized architecture to retrieve ...
We introduce query-free information retrieval, a paradigm in which queries are constructed autonomously and information relevant to a user is offered without explicit request. Que...