Glasgow FERMI - Technical Reports

FERMI Technical Reports:

The following is a list of technical reports published under the FERMI technical reports series:

FERMI 1-94: Fabio Crestani and Keith van Rijsbergen - Information Retrieval by Imaging. - Paper presented at the 16th BCS IR Colloquium, Drymen, Scotland, March 1994. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 2-94: Keith van Rijsbergen and Mounia Lalmas - An Information Calculus for Information Retrieval. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 3-94: Fabrizio Sebastiani - A Probabilistic Terminological Logic for Modelling Information Retrieval. - Paper presented at the 17th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Dublin, Ireland, July 1994. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 4-94: Francois Paradis - A model for structured textual documents.
FERMI 5-94: Mourad Mechkour - EMIR2 - An extended model for image representation and retrieval.
FERMI 1-95: Fabio Crestani and Keith van Rijsbergen - Probability Kinematics in Information Retrieval: a case study. - Extended version of a paper to be presented at the 18th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, USA, July 1995. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 2-95: Norbert Fuhr - Logical and conceptual models for the integration of information retrieval and database systems. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 3-95: Norbert Fuhr - Probabilistic datalog - a logic for powerful retrieval methods. - Paper to be presented at the 18th ACM SIGIR International Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, Seattle, USA, July 1995. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 4-95: Norbert Fuhr - Modelling hypermedia retrieval in datalog. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 5-95: Fabio Crestani, Mark Sanderson and Keith van Rijsbergen - Sense resolution properties of logical imaging. - Paper presented at the 17th BCS IR Colloquium, Manchester, England, April 1995. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 6-95: Iain Campbell - Ostensive support for information needs in an adaptive information space.
FERMI 7-95: Fabrizio Sebastiani - A note on logic and information retrieval - Paper presented at the final MIRO workshop. Published in MIRO '95, proceedings of the Final MIRO Workshop. Ed Ian Ruthven. electronic Workshops in Computing Series. 1996.
FERMI 8-95: Mark D Dunlop and Ian Ruthven - An analysis of the use of graphics for information retrieval - Paper presented at the final MIRO workshop. Published in MIRO '95, proceedings of the Final MIRO Workshop. Ed Ian Ruthven. electronic Wor kshops in Computing Series. 1996.
FERMI 1-96: Iain Campbell, Fabio Crestani, Nathalie Denos, Norbert Fuhr, Thomas Roelleke, Ian Ruthven, Mark Sanderson, Fabrizio Sebastiani and C J van Rijsbergen - Deliverable D3: A theory of uncertainty for information retrieval. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 2-96: Jean-Pierre Chevallet, Marie-France Bruandet, Carlo Meghini, Fabrizio Sebastiani and Umberto Straccia - Deliverable D2: A logic for information retrieval. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 3-96: Mourad Mechkour - CGM. A Conceptual Graphics Model for Information Retrieval.
FERMI 4-96: Yves Chiramella, Philippe Mulhem and Franck Fourel - A Model for Multimedia Information Retrieval. (Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 5-96: Jean-Pierre Chevallet and Marie-France Bruandet - A Study of System and User Relevance in Information Retrieval.
FERMI 6-96: Nathalie Denos - A conceptual approach to system relevance via user criteria for relevance.
FERMI 7-96: Fabio Crestani - Retrieval by General Logical Imaging with incomplete knowledge of the Term Space. Extended version of a paper titled: "On the use of Term Space Knowledge to direct the Kinematics of probabilistic term weights in Information Retrieval", to be presented at the Artificial Intelligence Techniques (AIT'96) Workshop, Brno, Czech Republic, September 1996.(Click here to download a compressed postscript copy).
FERMI 8-96.: Fabrizio Sebastiani - Information Retrieval, Imaging and Probabilistic Logic.

You can either dowload a postscript copy (when available) of the report you are interested for your pleasure, or contact me and have sent to you a nicely bound copy.

Fabio Crestani (fabio@dcs.gla.ac.uk)