We consider the problem of information retrieval in a peerto-peer file sharing system. We assume that peers are unreliable, metadata are sparse, and queries are short. In light o...
Heterogeneous computing environments have become attractive platforms to schedule computationally intensive jobs. We consider the problem of mapping independent tasks onto machines...
Praveen Holenarsipur, Vladimir Yarmolenko, Jos&eac...
: We describe our participation in the TREC 2008 Enterprise track and detail our language modeling-based approaches. For document search, our focus was on query expansion using pro...
We introduce intersection schemes (a generalization of uniform oriented matroids of rank 3) to describe the combinatorial properties of arrangements of pseudocircles in the plane ...
Query Personalization is the process of dynamically enhancing a query with related user preferences stored in a user profile with the aim of providing personalized answers. The un...