Declustering and replication are well known techniques used to improve response time of queries in parallel disk environments. As data replication incurs a penalty for updates, da...
We propose an original approach for the characterization of video dynamic content with a view to supplying new functionalities for motion-based video indexing and retrieval with q...
Dublin City University (DCU) took part in the Web Track (small task) in TREC-9. Our experiments were based on evaluating a number of connectivity analysis algorithms that we hoped...
CAT0 is an instructions environment for practicing basic skills of legal research: to use cases in arguments about a problem situation and to test a theory about a legal domain. U...
For the legal track we used the Wumpus search engine and investigated several methods that have proven successful in other domains, including cover density ranking and Okapi BM25 ...