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In the last ten years, internet as well as its applications changed significantly, mainly thanks to the raising of available personal resources. Concerning multimedia, the most i...
The presence of replicas or near-replicas of documents is very common on the Web. Documents may be replicated completely or partially for different reasons (versions, mirrors, etc...
Ernesto Di Iorio, Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Go...
Traditional routing indices in peer-to-peer (P2P) networks are mainly designed for document retrieval applications and maintain aggregated one-dimensional values representing the ...
Understanding query intent is essential to generating appropriate rankings for users. Existing methods have provided customized rankings to answer queries with different intent. W...