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

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Callan, Jamie (Editor), Crestani, Fabio (Editor), Sanderson, Mark (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2004.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2924
• Subjects: Computer science.; Information technology.; Business > Data processing.; Database management.; Information storage and retrieval.; Multimedia information systems.; Computer Science.; Database Management.; Information Storage and Retrieval.; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet).; Multimedia Information Systems.; IT in Business.

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...

Table of Contents:

• Resource Discovery
• Harvesting: Broadening the Field of Distributed Information Retrieval
• Using Query Probing to Identify Query Language Features on the Web
• Resource Selection
• 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
• Data Fusion
• 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
• Architectures
• 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.