Image data is as common as textual data in this digital world. There is an urgent demand of image management tools as efficient as those text search engines. Decades of research on...
Distributed hash tables (DHTs) are very efficient for querying based on key lookups. However, building huge term indexes, as required for IR-style keyword search, poses a scalabil...
Odysseas Papapetrou, Wolf Siberski, Wolfgang Nejdl
Given the large heterogeneity of the World Wide Web, using metadata on the search engines side seems to be a useful track for information retrieval. Though, because a manual quali...
Camille Prime-Claverie, Michel Beigbeder, Thierry ...
The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
The suitability of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches for fulltext web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retri...
Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Toan Luu, Fabius Klem...