In this article the author explores how the systems department at the Auraria Library (which
serves more than thirty thousand primarily commuting students at the University of Colorado …

The use of search engines is essential nowadays, because the immense sea of information
that we have and generate every day makes it impossible to carry out quick searches …

Masteroppgaven presenterer en litteraturstudie på sammenligning mellom globale og lokale
inverterte filer, samt alternative metoder som samlebåndsbaserte prosessering av globale …

We present in this report a summary of the main results produced in the five years of the
GERINDO research project. The aim of this project is to address the increasing demand for …

In this work, we propose efficient query workload partition techniques to reduce processing
times of queries in parallel search engines. Existing methods cannot offer both high cache …

Abstract This article summarizes Information Retrieval (IR) research conducted at the
Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais (UFMG), over more than a quarter of a century. The …

A busca por documentos relevantes ao usuário é um problema que se torna mais custoso
conforme as bases de conhecimento crescem em seu ritmo acelerado. Este problema …

El empleo de sistemas distribuidos aporta un importante beneficio en cuanto al rendimiento
en el ámbito de la Recuperación de Información. En dichos sistemas, existen diversas …

We present in this article a summary of the main research results in the last years in the area
of Web Information Retrieval produced by two Brazilian groups, from the Federal University …

There are several articles which suggest certain improvements in the performance of Web
searches by means of techniques such as index distribution. Other articles analyze which …