Abstract. We consider a collaboration of peers autonomously crawling the Web. A pivotal issue when designing a peer-to-peer (P2P) Web search engine in this environment is query rou...
Sebastian Michel, Matthias Bender, Peter Triantafi...
In this paper, we propose a Bayesian learning approach to promoting diversity for information retrieval in biomedicine and a re-ranking model to improve retrieval performance in t...
We investigate the application of multi-agent systems to develop intelligent information interfaces for connected communities, a class of computer applications aimed at enhancing ...
Spatial diversity is a relatively new branch of research in the context of spatial information retrieval. Although the assumption that spatially diversified results may meet users&...
Identifying and tracking new information on the Web is important in sociology, marketing, and survey research, since new trends might be apparent in the new information. Such chan...