We propose a scene classification method, which combines two popular methods in the literature: Spatial Pyramid Matching (SPM) and probabilistic Latent Semantic Analysis (pLSA) mod...
Documentsretrieved in responseto a user's query shouldreflect the intention of the user. Keyword searchesare not sufficient to accomplishthis task. This paper considersLatent...
— The success of a P2P file-sharing network highly depends on the scalability and versatility of its search mechanism. Two particularly desirable search features are scope (abil...
Reciprocity is a pervasive concept that plays an important role in governing people’s behavior, judgments, and thus their social interactions. In this paper we present an analys...
The number of vertical search engines and portals has rapidly increased over the last years, making the importance of a topic-driven (focused) crawler evident. In this paper, we de...