We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
In this paper, we examine the social roles of software tools in the English-language Wikipedia, specifically focusing on autonomous editing programs and assisted editing tools. Th...
The main goal of the bilingual and monolingual participation of the MIRACLE team at CLEF 2004 was testing the effect of combination approaches to information retrieval. The starti...
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Abstract. In this paper, we introduce a framework for providing incentives for honest participation in global-scale distributed trust management infrastructures. Our system can imp...
Alberto Fernandes, Evangelos Kotsovinos, Sven &Oum...