Simulation studies are frequently used to evaluate new peer-to-peer searching techniques as well as existing techniques on new applications. Unless these studies are accurate in th...
: We address the problem of evaluating peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2PIR) systems with semantic overlay structure. The P2PIR community lacks a commonly accepted testbed, su...
Florian Holz, Hans Friedrich Witschel, Gregor Hein...
Depending on a web searcher’s familiarity with a query’s target topic, it may be more appropriate to show her introductory or advanced documents. The TREC HARD [1] track defi...
The Semantic Web is bound to be untrustworthy and inconsistent. In this paper, we present an initial approach for obtaining useful information in such an environment. In particular...
We describe our participation in the 2009 CLEF-IP task, which was targeted at priorart search for topic patent documents. Our system retrieved patent documents based on a standard...