The concept of a "unique" object arises in many emerging programming languages such as Clean, CQual, Cyclone, TAL, and Vault. In each of these systems, unique objects ma...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer (P2P) networks such as Gnutella are attractive for large-scale information retrieval and search systems due to scalability, fault-tolera...
In this paper, we present the results of our work that seek to negotiate the gap between low-level features and high-level concepts in the domain of web document retrieval. This wo...
With the explosion in the amount of semi-structured data users access and store in personal information management systems, there is a need for complex search tools to retrieve of...
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...