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    Improve Ranking by Using Image Information

    This paper explores the feasibility of including image information embedded in Web pages in relevance computation to improve search performance. In determining the ranking of Web pages against a given query, m...

    Qing Yu, Shuming Shi, Zhiwei Li, Ji-Rong Wen in Advances in Information Retrieval (2007)

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    Exploring URL Hit Priors for Web Search

    URL usually contains meaningful information for measuring the relevance of a Web page to a query in Web search. Some existing works utilize URL depth priors (i.e. the probability of being a good page given the...

    Ruihua Song, Guomao **n, Shuming Shi, Ji-Rong Wen in Advances in Information Retrieval (2006)

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    Making Peer-to-Peer Keyword Searching Feasible Using Multi-level Partitioning

    This paper discusses large scale keyword searching on top of peer-to-peer (P2P) networks. The state-of-the-art keyword searching techniques for unstructured and structured P2P systems are query flooding and in...

    Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Dingxing Wang, ** Yu, Shaogang Qu in Peer-to-Peer Systems III (2005)

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    Improving the Objects Set Availability in the P2P Environment by Multiple Groups

    The availability is often used to measure how well a system can provide the service continuously. The measures of availability for a single computer and for multiple computers are very different. In this paper...

    Kang Chen, Shuming Shi, Guangwen Yang, Meiming Shen in Grid and Cooperative Computing (2004)