Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Background: Recent advances in Web and information technologies with the increasing decentralization of organizational structures have resulted in massive amounts of information r...
ct One significant effort towards combining the virtues of Web search, viz. being accessible to untrained users and able to cope with vastly heterogeneous data, with those of dat...
: This paper presents a novel way of examining the accuracy of the evaluation measures commonly used in information retrieval experiments. It validates several of the rules-of-thum...
Background: The development of e-Science presents a major set of opportunities and challenges for the future progress of biological and life scientific research. Major new tools a...