Journal peer review as an information retrieval process

Medical journal peer review: process and bias.

Scientific peer review is pivotal in health care research in that it facilitates the evaluation of findings for competence, significance, and originality by qualified experts. While the origins of peer review can be traced to the societies of the eighteenth century, it became an institutionalized part of the scholarly process in the latter half of the twentieth century. This was a response to t...

Private Information Retrieval in an Anonymous Peer-to-Peer Environment

Private Information Retrieval (PIR) protocols enable a client to access data from a server without revealing what data was accessed. The study of Computational Private Information Retrieval (CPIR) protocols, an area of PIR protocols focusing on computational security, has been a recently reinvigorated area of focus in the study of cryptography. However, CPIR protocols still have not been utiliz...

Information Retrieval in Peer to Peer Systems

Information Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks

Peer-to-Peer (P2P) systems are application layer networks which enable networked hosts to share resources in a distributed manner. An important problem in such networks is to be able to efficiently search the contents of other peers. In this paper we present a survey of search techniques for information retrieval in P2P networks, including recent techniques proposed by the authors. We also pres...

Peer-to-Peer Private Information Retrieval

Private information retrieval (PIR) is normally modeled as a game between two players: a user and a database. The user wants to retrieve some item from the database without the latter learning which item. Most current PIR protocols are ill-suited to provide PIR from a search engine or large database: i) their computational complexity is linear in the size of the database; ii) they assume active...