Answering range queries is a common database operation. Methods based on hashing techniques to minimise the cost of answering range queries by taking the query distribution into a...
Salahadin Mohammed, Evan P. Harris, Kotagiri Ramam...
The prediction of query performance is an interesting and important issue in Information Retrieval (IR). Current predictors involve the use of relevance scores, which are time-cons...
Abstract Since the concept of private information retrieval (PIR) was first formalized by Chor et. al, various constructions have been proposed with a common goal of reducing commu...
Xuhua Ding, Yanjiang Yang, Robert H. Deng, Shuhong...
The state of the art in visual object retrieval from large databases is achieved by systems that are inspired by text retrieval. A key component of these approaches is that local ...
James Philbin, Ondrej Chum, Michael Isard, Josef S...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...