Visual information retrieval (VIR) is an active and vibrant research area, which attempts at providing means for organizing, indexing, annotating, and retrievin

Information Retrieval (IR) models are a core component of IR research and IR systems. The past decade brought a consolidation of the family of IR models, which

Information retrieval used to mean looking through thousands of strings of texts to find words or symbols that matched a user's query. Today, there are many mod

Information Retrieval performance measures are usually retrospective in nature, representing the effectiveness of an experimental process. However, in the scien

Simulated test collections may find application in situations where real datasets cannot easily be accessed due to confidentiality concerns or practical inconve