This paper proposes a semantic overlay based on the small world phenomenon that facilitates efficient search for information retrieval in unstructured P2P systems. In the semantic...
We describe a framework of bootstrapped hypothesis testing for estimating the confidence in one web search engine outperforming another over any randomly sampled query set of a gi...
Eric C. Jensen, Steven M. Beitzel, Ophir Frieder, ...
In this paper we propose a novel algorithm for 3D shape searching based on the visual similarity by cutting the object into sections. This method rectifies some of the shortcomin...
A common search problem in the World Wide Web concerns finding information if it is not known when the sources of information appear and how long sources will be available on the ...
Dirk Kukulenz, Nils Hoeller, Sven Groppe, Volker L...
In this paper, we present two linear-size external memory data structures for approximate range searching. Our first structure, the BAR-B-tree, stores a set of N points in Rd and ...