Workshop on large-scale distributed systems for information retrieval

Abstract

The Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval was a venue for seminal ideas on the design of systems for search. The workshop focused mainly on mechanisms for P2P IR, which is currently a highly popular research area, but it also had fruitful discussions and presentations on other architectures for large-scale systems. Given the attendance and the good level of discussion, we conclude that systems for information retrieval is a growing and promising area of research.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Architectures

    • Distributed architectures

• General and reference

• Information systems

  • Information retrieval

• Software and its engineering

  • Software organization and properties

    • Software system structures

      • Distributed systems organizing principles