Distributed multimedia information retrieval : SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003 : revised, selected, and invited papers

Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval: SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003. Revised Selected and Invited Papers
Author: Jamie Callan, Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson
Published by Springer Berlin Heidelberg
ISBN: 978-3-540-20875-4
DOI: 10.1007/b95004

Table of Contents:

• Harvesting: Broadening the Field of Distributed Information Retrieval
• Using Query Probing to Identify Query Language Features on the Web
• The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms
• Decision-Theoretic Resource Selection for Different Data Types in MIND
• Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game
• Collection Fusion for Distributed Image Retrieval
• New Methods of Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval
• Recent Results on Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System
• The MIND Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Federated Digital Libraries
• Apoidea: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Crawling the World Wide Web
• Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks
• The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and Its Collections Management

Includes bibliographical references and index