Recent increase in the number of search engines on the Web and the availability of meta search engines that can query multiple search engines makes it important to find effective ...
In this paper we propose a generic model to generate basic multi-partite graphs obtained by associations found in arbitrary data. The interest of such a model is to be the formal ...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Nieves R. Brisaboa, Josep-...
Private information retrieval (PIR) enables a user to retrieve a data item from a database, replicated among one or more servers, while hiding the identity of the retrieved item. ...
We propose an agent for exploring and categorizing documents on the World Wide Web based on a user pro le. The heart of the agent is an automatic categorization of a set of docume...
Eui-Hong Han, Daniel Boley, Maria L. Gini, Robert ...
The utility of an enterprise search system is determined by three key players: the information retrieval (IR) system (the search engine), the enterprise users, and the service pro...
Mingfang Wu, James A. Thom, Andrew Turpin, Ross Wi...