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INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Landmark-Based Information Storage and Retrieval in Sensor Networks
— For a wide variety of sensor network environments, location information is unavailable or expensive to obtain. We propose a location-free, lightweight, distributed, and data-ce...
Qing Fang, Jie Gao, Leonidas J. Guibas
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
Remindin': semantic query routing in peer-to-peer networks based on social metaphors
In peer-to-peer networks, finding the appropriate answer for an information request, such as the answer to a query for RDF(S) data, depends on selecting the right peer in the netw...
Christoph Tempich, Steffen Staab, Adrian Wranik
ACSC
2000
IEEE
14 years 10 days ago
Needles and Haystacks: A Search Engine for Personal Information Collections
Information retrieval systems can be partitioned into two main classes: large-scale systems that make use of an inverted index or some other auxiliary data structure, intended for...
Owen de Kretser, Alistair Moffat
SIGIR
2006
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
CIKM
2007
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Improve retrieval accuracy for difficult queries using negative feedback
How to improve search accuracy for difficult topics is an underaddressed, yet important research question. In this paper, we consider a scenario when the search results are so poo...
Xuanhui Wang, Hui Fang, ChengXiang Zhai