LSDS-IR 2008: Napa Valley, California, USA

Sebastian Michel, Gleb Skobeltsyn, Wai Gen Yee (Eds.): Proceeding of the 2008 ACM Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval, LSDS-IR 2008, Napa Valley, California, USA, October 30, 2008. ACM 2008, ISBN 978-1-60558-254-2

Keynote

Torsten Suel:
Search engine architectures from conventional to Brian Ulicny and Ken Baclawski. New metrics for newsblog. 1-2

Similarity search and resource selection

Fabrizio Falchi, Claudio Lucchese, Salvatore Orlando, Raffaele Perego, Fausto Rabitti:
A metric cache for similarity search. 43-50
Stanislav Barton, Vlastislav Dohnal, Jan Sedmidubský, Pavel Zezula:
Building self-organized image retrieval network. 51-58
Georgios Paltoglou, Michail Salampasis, Maria Satratzemi:
Integral based source selection for uncooperative distributed information retrieval environments. 67-74
Hans F. Witschel:
Ranking information resources in peer-to-peer text retrieval: an experimental study. 75-82
Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil Nørvåg, Michalis Vazirgiannis:
Peer-to-peer similarity search over widely distributed document collections. 35-42

Potpourri

Pascal Felber, Toan Luu, Martin Rajman, Etienne Riviere:
Managing collaborative feedback information for distributed retrieval. 27-34
Paraskevi Raftopoulou, Euripides G. M. Petrakis:
A measure for cluster cohesion in semantic overlay networks. 59-66
Venkata Snehith Cherukuri, K. Selçuk Candan:
Propagation-vectors for trees (PVT): concise yet effective summaries for hierarchical data and trees. 3-10
Judith Winter:
Routing of structured queries in large-scale distributed systems. 11-18
Dongmei Jia:
Cost-effective spam detection in p2p file-sharing systems. 19-26