Ranking a number of retrieval systems according to their retrieval effectiveness without relying on costly relevance judgments was first explored by Soboroff et al [6]. Over th...
Claudia Hauff, Djoerd Hiemstra, Franciska de Jong,...
This paper presents an algorithm to bound the bandwidth of a Web crawler. The crawler collects statistics on the transfer rate of each server to predict the expected bandwidth use...
Michelangelo Diligenti, Marco Maggini, Filippo Mar...
We have developed a web-based search engine for 3D polygonal models. These days, the number of web sites using Web 3D technology is increasing. The development of our search engin...
This paper addresses the challenging problem of rapidly searching and matching high-dimensional features for the applications of multimedia database retrieval and pattern recognit...
The size of a document archive is a very important parameter for resource selection in distributed information retrieval systems. In this paper, we present a method for automatical...