@inbook {17584,
	title = {Distributed Ranked Search},
	booktitle = {High Performance Computing {\textendash} HiPC 2007High Performance Computing {\textendash} HiPC 2007},
	series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
	volume = {4873},
	year = {2007},
	month = {2007///},
	pages = {7 - 20},
	publisher = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
	organization = {Springer Berlin / Heidelberg},
	abstract = {P2P deployments are a natural infrastructure for building distributed search networks. Proposed systems support locating and retrieving all results, but lack the information necessary to rank them. Users, however, are primarily interested in the most relevant results, not necessarily all possible results. Using random sampling, we extend a class of well-known information retrieval ranking algorithms such that they can be applied in this decentralized setting. We analyze the overhead of our approach, and quantify how our system scales with increasing number of documents, system size, document to node mapping (uniform versus non-uniform), and types of queries (rare versus popular terms). Our analysis and simulations show that a) these extensions are efficient, and scale with little overhead to large systems, and b) the accuracy of the results obtained using distributed ranking is comparable to that of a centralized implementation.},
	isbn = {978-3-540-77219-4},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-77220-0_6},
	author = {Gopalakrishnan,Vijay and Morselli,Ruggero and Bhattacharjee, Bobby and Keleher,Pete and Srinivasan, Aravind},
	editor = {Aluru,Srinivas and Parashar,Manish and Badrinath,Ramamurthy and Prasanna,Viktor}
}
