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...
There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
In typical open source software development, developers use revision control systems for product management, mailing list systems for human communications, and bug tracking system...
Video information retrieval requires a system to find information relevant to a query which may be represented simultaneously in different ways through a text description, audio...