Publications related to Web Text Retrieval with a P2P Query-Driven Index

From scattered sources to comprehensive technology landscape : A recommendation-based retrieval approach

Mapping the technology landscape is crucial for market actors to take informed investment decisions. However, given the large amount of data on the Web and its subsequent information overload, manually retrieving information is a seemingly ineffective and ...

ELSEVIER2023

Knowledge-Aware Cross-Modal Text-Image Retrieval for Remote Sensing Images

Devis Tuia, Christel Marie Tartini-Chappuis, Siran Li, Li Mi

Image-based retrieval in large Earth observation archives is difficult, because one needs to navigate across thousands of candidate matches only with the proposition image as a guide. By using text as a query language, the retrieval system gains in usabili ...

2022

Graph Embedding for Retrieval

Chi Thang Duong

Information retrieval (IR) systems such as search engines are important for people to find what they need among the tremendous amount of data available in their organization or on the Internet. These IR systems enable users to search in a large data collec ...

EPFL2022

Information Retrieval Under Network Uncertainty: Robust Internet Ranking

Ralf Seifert, Anna Timonina-Farkas

Internet ranking algorithms play a crucial role in information technologies and numerical analysis due to their efficiency in high dimensions and wide range of possible applications, including scientometrics and systemic risk in finance (SinkRank, DebtRank ...

2023

Beating the I/O Bottleneck: A Case for Log-Structured Virtual Disks

Vojtech Aschenbrenner

With the increasing dominance of SSDs for local storage, today's network mounted virtual disks can no longer offer competitive performance. We propose a Log-Structured Virtual Disk (LSVD) that couples log-structured approaches at both the cache and storage ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2022

Fair Incentivization of Bandwidth Sharing in Decentralized Storage Networks

Verónica del Carmen Estrada Galiñanes

Peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are not independent of their peers, and the network efficiency depends on peers contributing resources. Because shared resources are not free, this contribution must be rewarded. Peers across the network may share computation po ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Moby: A Blackout-Resistant Anonymity Network for Mobile Devices

Antoine Rault, Bryan Alexander Ford, Amogh Pradeep, Hira Javaid

Internet blackouts are challenging environments for anonymity and censorship resistance. Existing popular anonymity networks (e.g., Freenet, I2P, Tor) rely on Internet connectivity to function, making them impracticable during such blackouts. In such a set ...

2022

QAIR: Practical Query-efficient Black-Box Attacks for Image Retrieval

Hang Su, Jinfeng Li, Shaokai Ye, Yuan He

We study the query-based attack against image retrieval to evaluate its robustness against adversarial examples under the black-box setting, where the adversary only has query access to the top-1 ranked unlabeled images from the database. Compared with que ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2021

Semantics-Aware Spatial-Temporal Binaries for Cross-Modal Video Retrieval

Jie Luo, Yiyu Wang, Mengshi Qi

With the current exponential growth of video-based social networks, video retrieval using natural language is receiving ever-increasing attention. Most existing approaches tackle this task by extracting individual frame-level spatial features to represent ...

2021

Swiss Potential for Hydropower Generation and Storage - Synthesis report

François Avellan, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Paolo Burlando, David Felix, Martin Schmid

Hydropower (HP) is the backbone of the Swiss electricity system providing around 60 % (36 TWh/a) of the total electricity generated on a yearly average. With the planned phase-out of nuclear power plants, HP and other Renewable Energy Sources (RES) will ne ...

ETH Zurich2021

Storage Management in Smart Data Lake

Anastasia Ailamaki, Ioannis Mytilinis, Bikash Chandra, Haoqiong Bian

Data lakes are complex ecosystems where heterogeneity prevails. Raw data of diverse formats are stored and processed, while long and expensive ETL processes are avoided. Apart from data heterogeneity, data lakes also entail hardware heterogeneity. Typical ...

2021

An Architecture for Load Balance in Computer Cluster Applications

Laurent Bindschaedler

Amid a data revolution that is transforming industries around the globe, computing systems have undergone a paradigm shift where many applications are scaled out to run on multiple computers in a computing cluster. As the storage and processing capabilitie ...

EPFL2020

Language Resources for Historical Newspapers: the Impresso Collection

Raphaël Barman, Maud Ehrmann, Matteo Romanello

Following decades of massive digitization, an unprecedented amount of historical document facsimiles can now be retrieved and accessed via cultural heritage online portals. If this represents a huge step forward in terms of preservation and accessibility, ...

European Language Resources Association2020

Graph Embeddings for One-pass Processing of Heterogeneous Queries

Karl Aberer, Quoc Viet Hung Nguyen, Chi Thang Duong

Effective information retrieval (IR) relies on the ability to comprehensively capture a user's information needs. Traditional IR systems are limited to homogeneous queries that define the information to retrieve by a single modality. Support for heterogene ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2020

Deep Feature Factorization For Content-Based Image Retrieval And Localization

Sabine Süsstrunk, Edo Collins

State of the art content-based image retrieval algorithms owe their excellent performance to the rich semantics encoded in the deep activations of a convolutional neural network. The difference between these algorithms lies mostly in how activations are co ...

IEEE2019

An Improved Analysis of Local Search for Max-Sum Diversification

Rico Zenklusen, Friedrich Eisenbrand, Alfonso Bolívar Cevallos Manzano

We present new techniques to analyze natural local search algorithms for several variants of the max-sum diversification problem which, in its most basic form, is as follows: given an n-point set X subset of R-d and an integer k, select k points in X so th ...

INFORMS2019

Practical Private Range Search in Depth

Ioannis Demertzis, Odysseas Papapetrou

We consider a data owner that outsources its dataset to an untrusted server. The owner wishes to enable the server to answer range queries on a single attribute, without compromising the privacy of the data and the queries. There are several schemes on “pr ...

2018

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

The USENIX Association2018

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Extracting And Aligning Artist Names in Digitized Art Historical Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Benoît Laurent Auguste Seguin, Isabella Di Lenardo

The largest collections of art historical images are not found online but are safeguarded by museums and other cultural institutions in photographic libraries. These collections can encompass millions of reproductions of paintings, drawings, engravings and ...

Red de Humanidades Digitales A. C.2018