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This thesis describes our research results in the context of peer-to-peer information retrieval (P2P-IR). One goal in P2P-IR is to build a search engine for the World Wide Web (WWW) that runs on up to hundreds of thousands or even millions computers distri ...
Our daily life is pervaded by digital information and devices, not least the common mobile phone. However, a seamless connection between our physical world, such as a movie trailer on a screen in the main rail station and its digital counterparts, such as ...
Ranking in scientific publication databases involves a variety of additional resources that are usually not applied in standard general purpose search engines. Moreover, community-specific expectations of users influence the perception of the adequacy of r ...
eLogbook is a Web-based collaborative environment designed for communities of practice. It enables users to manage joint activities, share related assets and get contextual awareness. In addition to the original Web- based access, an email-based eLogbook i ...
We consider the applicability of terms extracted from anchortext as a source of Web page descriptions in the form of tags. With a relatively simple and easy-to-use method, we show that anchortext significantly overlaps with tags obtained from the popular t ...
In our everyday life we often see objects or persons and are aware that there are related digital services such as an online ticket service when seeing a poster advertising a concert. Currently it is a rather time consuming activity to find the related inf ...
This paper presents a search and retrieval framework that enables the management of Intellectual Property in the World Wide Web. This twofold framework helps users to detect digital rights infringements of their copyrighted content. In order to detect poss ...
In this paper, we present a query-driven indexing/retrieval strategy for efficient full text retrieval from large document collections distributed within a structured P2P network. Our indexing strategy is based on two important properties: (1) the generate ...
About 20% of the world's population uses the web, and a large majority thereof uses web search engines to find information. As a result many web researchers are devoting much effort to improving the speed and capabilitiy of search technology. ...
Standard general-purpose Web retrieval relies on centralized search engines that do not realistically scale when applied to the exponentially growing number of documents available on the Web. By taking advantage of the resource sharing principle, Peer-to-P ...