Introduction to Information Retrieval is the first textbook with a coherent treatment of classical
and web information retrieval, including web search and the related areas of text …

In the supply chain, a warehouse is an essential component for linking the chain partners. It
is necessary to allocate warehouse resources efficiently and effectively to enhance the …

Customer orders with high product varieties in small quantities are often received by the
logistics service providers with requests for customized value-added services and timely …

In this study, we investigate information retrieval (IR) on Turkish texts using a large‐scale
test collection that contains 408,305 documents and 72 ad hoc queries. We examine the …

Case-based reasoning (CBR) has been extensively employed in various construction
management areas, involving construction cost prediction, duration estimation, risk …

Distributed information retrieval methods are growing rapidly because of the rising need to
access and search distributed digital documents. However, the content-based information …

Inverted indexes continue to be a mainstay of text search engines, allowing efficient
querying of large document collections. While there are a number of possible organizations …

Topic detection and tracking (TDT) applications aim to organize the temporally ordered
stories of a news stream according to the events. Two major problems in TDT are new event …

Search results of spatio-temporal data are often displayed on a map, but when the number
of matching search results is large, it can be time-consuming to individually examine all …

Simulation and analysis have shown that selective search can reduce the cost of large-scale
distributed information retrieval. By partitioning the collection into small topical shards, and …