Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...
Studies show that roughly one-third of searches that are performed on the web require the user to initiate subsequent searches. Bates [1] theorized that with every search the user...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
User clicks on a URL in response to a query are extremely useful predictors of the URL's relevance to that query. Exact match click features tend to suffer from severe data s...
Huihsin Tseng, Longbin Chen, Fan Li, Ziming Zhuang...
— When the node density in a network decreases below the level necessary to sustain ad-hoc and mesh networks, communication can succeed only by leveraging node mobility and trans...
Suman Srinivasan, Arezu Moghadam, Se Gi Hong, Henn...