Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...
Ranking information retrieval (IR) systems with respect to their effectiveness is a crucial operation during IR evaluation, as well as during data fusion. This paper offers a no...
: Mobile agent technology advocates the mobility of code rather than the transfer of data. As data is found in several sites, a mobile agent has to plan an itinerary to visit sever...
We argue for that taking into account semantic relations between words in the text can improve information retrieval performance. We implemented the process of information retrieva...
It is common practice in audiovisual archives to disclose documents using metadata from a structured vocabulary or thesaurus. Many of these thesauri have limited or no structure. T...