A Distributed Ranking Algorithm for the iTrust Information Search and Retrieval System

Boyang Peng, L. E. Moser, P. M. Melliar-Smith, Y. T. Chuang, I. Michel Lombera

2013

Abstract

The iTrust system is a decentralized and distributed system for publication, search and retrieval of information over the Internet and the Web, that is designed to make it difficult to censor or filter information. In the distributed ranking algorithm for iTrust presented in this paper, a source node that publishes a document indexes the words in the document and produces a term-frequency table for the document. A requesting node that issues a query and receives a response uses the URL in the response to retrieve the term-frequency table from the source node. The requesting node then uses the term-frequency tables from multiple source nodes and a ranking formula to score the documents with respect to its query. Our evaluations of the distributed ranking algorithm for iTrust demonstrate that the algorithm exhibits stability in ranking documents and that it counters scamming by malicious nodes.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Peng B., Moser L., Melliar-Smith P., Chuang Y. and Michel Lombera I. (2013). A Distributed Ranking Algorithm for the iTrust Information Search and Retrieval System . In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-8565-54-9, pages 199-208. DOI: 10.5220/0004355601990208

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist13,
author={Boyang Peng and L. E. Moser and P. M. Melliar-Smith and Y. T. Chuang and I. Michel Lombera},
title={A Distributed Ranking Algorithm for the iTrust Information Search and Retrieval System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,},
year={2013},
pages={199-208},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004355601990208},
isbn={978-989-8565-54-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 1: WEBIST,
TI - A Distributed Ranking Algorithm for the iTrust Information Search and Retrieval System
SN - 978-989-8565-54-9
AU - Peng B.
AU - Moser L.
AU - Melliar-Smith P.
AU - Chuang Y.
AU - Michel Lombera I.
PY - 2013
SP - 199
EP - 208
DO - 10.5220/0004355601990208