information retrieval can be achieved through computerized processes by generating a list of relevant responses to a query. the document processor, matching function and query analyzer are the main components of an information retrieval system. document retrieval system is fundamentally based on: boolean, vector-space, probabilistic, and language models. in this paper, a new methodology for mat...

The data structure at the core of large-scale search engines is inverted index, which essentially a collection sorted integer sequences called lists. Because many documents indexed by such and stringent performance requirements imposed heavy load queries, index stores billions integers that must be searched efficiently. In this scenario, compression essential because it leads to better exploita...

Highly heterogeneous XML collections are thematic collections exploiting different structures: the parent-child or ancestor-descendant relationships are not preserved and vocabulary discrepancies in the element names can occur. In this setting current approaches return answers with low precision. By means of similarity measures and semantic inverted indices we present an approach for improving ...

Management and retrieval of large volumes of text can be expensive in both space and time. Moreover, the range of document sizes in a large collection such as trec presents difficulties for both the retrieval mechanism and the user. We consider division of documents into parts as a solution to the problem of the range of document sizes and show that, for databases with long documents, use of do...

An approach for solving a matrix game whose pay off elements are symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers is proposed. P.Grzegorzewski’s theorem[1]has been used to transform symmetric trapezoidal fuzzy numbers to interval fuzzy number such that length of all intervals are different.Acceptability index has been defined and ordering of fuzzy numbers has been established.

For the 2005 Terabyte track in TREC Dublin City University participated in all three tasks: Adhoc, Efficiency and Named Page Finding. Our runs for TREC in all tasks were primarily focussed on the application of “Top Subset Retrieval” to the Terabyte Track. This retrieval utilises different types of sorted inverted indices so that less documents are processed in order to reduce query times, and ...

Human beings are highly efficient in maintaining standing balance under the influence of different perturbations. However, biped humanoid robots are far from exhibiting similar skills. This is mainly due to the limitations in the current control and modeling techniques used in humanoid robots. Even though approaches using the Linear Inverted Pendulum Model and the Preview Control schemes have s...

In this article we discuss the primliminary results of stabilising a vertically driven pendulum. Following the brief introduction on the importance of this ‘toy’ problem, we give an account of the experimental set up. We then explain the parameter extraction from the experimental data which form a cucial part of our quantitative study. We also find the stability boundary for a small range of dr...

The paper considers the use of a Consumer Price Index (CPI) for three possible purposes: (1) as a Cost of Living Index (COLI); i.e., as a measure of the relative cost of achieving the standard of living when facing two different sets of prices for the same group of commodities; (2) as a consumption deflator; i.e., the price change component for a decomposition of a value ratio into price and qu...

The experimental uncertainties in G between different experiments have important implications for helioseismology. We show that these uncertainties for the standard solar model lead to a range in the value of the square of the sound speed in the nuclear region that is as much as 0.15% higher than the inverted helioseismic sound speed. While a lower value of G is preferred for the standard model...