Online ISSN:1349-8606
Progress in Informatics  
No.6 March 2009  
Page 63-77 PDF(1,290KB) | References
doi:10.2201/NiiPi.2009.6.8
A distributed information retrieval manner based on the statistic information for ubiquitous services
Takeshi TSUCHIYA1, Hiroaki SAWANO2, Marc LIHAN3, Hirokazu YOSHINAGA4, and Keiichi KOYANAGI5
1,2,3,4,5Graduate School of Information, Production, and Systems, WASEDA University
2JSPS Research Fellow
(Received: January 6, 2008)
(Revised: November 28, 2008)
(Accepted: December 1, 2008)
Abstract:
We propose and clarify the manner in which a distributed information retrieval (IR) is conducted using a Peer-to-Peer (P2P) technology that has approximately the same accuracy as a current index-integrated search engine with the statistical information calculated from the contents. We need to solve the following three problems to develop distributed IR services that use statistic information. The first one is the manner of the calculation of the statistic information from all the contents and then generating the manner of the indices using the collaboration among distributed peers (nodes). The second problem is the efficiency of the index distribution on the logical space collaborated by the peers which is named the Multiple-Ring. The last problem is having efficient IR strategies that are highly accurate. We discuss the relationship between the propagation time for generating the statistics information and the system scalability by using simulations and emulations to evaluate the results. Our proposed system is suitable for flexible IR services that use the content environment of small to mid-scale networks such as those in an office.
Keywords:
Peer-to-Peer, distributed retrieval, overlay network, statistic information from contents
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