IR research has a strong tradition of laboratory evaluation of systems. Such research is based on test collections, pre-defined test topics, and standard evaluation metrics. While ...
Due to the different nature of the available dynamic interactions between components afforded by some middleware infrastructure, distributed information systems (DIS) behave differ...
We present a framework for automatically summarizing social group activity over time. The problem is important in understanding large scale online social networks, which have dive...
Tagged data is rapidly becoming more available on the World Wide Web. Web sites which populate tagging services offer a good way for Internet users to share their knowledge. An in...
: This paper describes a new algorithm for merging the results of remote collections in a distributed information retrieval environment. The algorithm makes use only of the ranks o...
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satr...