During a three-day workshop in February 2012, 45 Information Retrieval researchers met to discuss long-range challenges and opportunities within the field. The result of the works...
James Allan, W. Bruce Croft, Alistair Moffat, Mark...
Content based image retrieval is an active research area of pattern recognition. A new method of extracting global texture energy descriptors is proposed and it is combined with fe...
Network attached disk storage is characterized by independent network attachment and embedded intelligence. For Internet applications, it provides the key functionality of geograp...
Locating useful information effectively from the World Wide Web (WWW) is of wide interest. This paper presents new results on a methodology of using the structures and hyperlinks ...
Existing retrieval models generally do not offer any guarantee for optimal retrieval performance. Indeed, it is even difficult, if not impossible, to predict a model’s empirica...