Snoogle: A search engine for pervasive environments

H Wang, CC Tan, Q Li - IEEE Transactions on Parallel and …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Embedding small devices into everyday objects like toasters and coffee mugs creates a
wireless network of objects. These embedded devices can contain a description of the …

Distributed information retrieval and applications

F Crestani, I Markov - Advances in Information Retrieval: 35th European …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR) is a generic area of research that brings
together techniques, such as resource selection and results aggregation, dealing with data …

The identification of spelling variants in English and German historical texts: Manual or automatic?

T Pilz, A Ernst-Gerlach, S Kempken… - Literary and …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
In this article, we describe the respective approaches we have taken when addressing
issues of spelling variation in German and English historical texts. More specifically, we …

Theoretical, qualitative, and quantitative analyses of small-document approaches to resource selection

I Markov, F Crestani - ACM Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS), 2014 - dl.acm.org
In a distributed retrieval setup, resource selection is the problem of identifying and ranking
relevant sources of information for a given user's query. For better usage of existing resource …

Adaptive query-based sampling of distributed collections

M Baillie, L Azzopardi, F Crestani - … SPIRE 2006, Glasgow, UK, October 11 …, 2006 - Springer
As part of a Distributed Information Retrieval system a description of each remote
information resource, archive or repository is usually stored centrally in order to facilitate …

Accès personnalisé à l'information: approche basée sur l'utilisation d'un profil utilisateur sémantique dérivé d'une ontologie de domaines à travers l'historique des …

M Daoud - 2009 - theses.hal.science
Le but fondamental de la recherche d'information (RI) contextuelle consiste à combiner des
sources d'évidences issues du contexte de la requête et du contexte de l'utilisateur dans …

Database selection and result merging in p2p web search

S Chernov, P Serdyukov, M Bender, S Michel… - … Systems, and Peer-to …, 2007 - Springer
Intelligent Web search engines are extremely popular now. Currently, only commercial
centralized search engines like Google can process terabytes of Web data. Alternative …

Updating collection representations for federated search

M Shokouhi, M Baillie, L Azzopardi - Proceedings of the 30th annual …, 2007 - dl.acm.org
To facilitate the search for relevant information across a setof online distributed collections, a
federated information retrieval system typically represents each collection, centrally, by a set …

Analyse de concepts formels guidée par des connaissances de domaine: Application à la découverte de ressources génomiques sur le Web

N Messai - 2009 - theses.hal.science
Cette thèse porte sur l'exploitation des connaissances de domaine dans un processus de
découvertes de sources de données biologiques sur le Web. Tout d'abord, des ontologies …

Collection-integral source selection for uncooperative distributed information retrieval environments

G Paltoglou, M Salampasis, M Satratzemi - Information Sciences, 2010 - Elsevier
We propose a new integral-based source selection algorithm for uncooperative distributed
information retrieval environments. The algorithm functions by modeling each source as a …