This paper presents the design, implementationand evaluation of Mingle, a secure distributed search system. Each participatinghost runs a Mingle server, which maintains an inverte...
Yinglian Xie, David R. O'Hallaron, Michael K. Reit...
: Random walk and flooding are basic mechanisms for searching unstructured overlays. This paper shows that node coverage is an important metric for query performance in random grap...
Abstract. Computational resources are increasing rapidly with the explosion of multi-core processors readily available from major vendors. Model checking needs to harness these res...
We introduce a method for learning query transformations that improves the ability to retrieve answers to questions from an information retrieval system. During the training stage...
The objective of this work is to derive quantitative statements about what fraction of web search queries issued to the state-of-the-art commercial search engines lead to excellen...
Hugo Zaragoza, Berkant Barla Cambazoglu, Ricardo A...