Distributed Multimedia Information Retrieval: SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, Toronto, Canada, August 1, 2003. Revised Selected and Invited Papers

Edward A. Fox, Marcos A. Gonçalves, Ming Luo, Yuxin Chen, Aaron Krowne, Baoping Zhang (auth.), Jamie Callan, Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson (eds.)3540208755, 9783540208754, 9783540246107

During recent years, huge efforts have been made to establish digital libraries, in a variety of media, offered from a variety of sources, and intended for a variety of professional and private user communities. As digital data collections proliferate, problems of resource selection and data fusion become major issues. Traditional search engines, even the best ones, are unable to provide access to the hidden web of information that is only available via digital library search interfaces.

Originating from the SIGIR 2003 Workshop on Distributed Information Retrieval, held in Toronto, Canada in August 2003, this book presents extended and revised workshop papers as well as several invited papers on the topic to round off coverage of the core issues. The papers are devoted to recent research on the design and implementation of methods and tools for resource discovery, resource description, resource selection, data fusion, and user interaction.

Table of contents :
Front Matter….Pages –
Harvesting: Broadening the Field of Distributed Information Retrieval….Pages 1-20
Using Query Probing to Identify Query Language Features on the Web….Pages 21-30
The Effect of Database Size Distribution on Resource Selection Algorithms….Pages 31-42
Decision-Theoretic Resource Selection for Different Data Types in MIND….Pages 43-57
Distributed Web Search as a Stochastic Game….Pages 58-69
Collection Fusion for Distributed Image Retrieval….Pages 70-83
New Methods of Results Merging for Distributed Information Retrieval….Pages 84-100
Recent Results on Fusion of Effective Retrieval Strategies in the Same Information Retrieval System….Pages 101-111
The MIND Architecture for Heterogeneous Multimedia Federated Digital Libraries….Pages 112-125
Apoidea: A Decentralized Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Crawling the World Wide Web….Pages 126-142
Towards Virtual Knowledge Communities in Peer-to-Peer Networks….Pages 143-155
The Personalized, Collaborative Digital Library Environment CYCLADES and Its Collections Management….Pages 156-172
Back Matter….Pages –