IR-200: (2000) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Partial Collection Replication versus Caching for Information Retrieval Systems," Proceedings of SIGIR 2000, pp. 248-255. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-194: (2000) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "The Effect of Collection Organization and Query Locality on Information Retrieval System Performance," Advances Information Retrieval: Recent Research from the CIIR, W. Bruce Croft, ed., Kluwer Academic Publishers, chapter 7, pp. 173-202. (Online version not available.). [View bibtex]
IR-168: (1999) Lu, Z., "Scalable Distributed Architectures for Information Retrieval," Ph.D. dissertation. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-165: (1999) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Searching a Terabyte of Text Using Partial Replication," CIIR Technical Report. [View bibtex]
IR-157: (1999) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Partial Replica Selection Based on Relevance for Information Retrieval," Proceedings of the 22nd International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval (SIGIR 99), pp. 97-104. [View bibtex]
IR-136: (1998) Lu, Z., McKinley, K. and Cahoon, B., "The Hardware/Software Balancing Act for Information Retrieval on Symmetric Multiprocessors," EuroPar98, pp. 521-527. UMass technical report TR98-25. [View bibtex]
IR-131: (1998) Lu, Z. and McKinley, K., "Partial Replica Selection Based on Relevance for Information Retrieval," CIIR technical report. [View Abstract] [View bibtex]
IR-113: (1997) Lu, Z., McKinley, K. and Cahoon, B., "A Performance Evaluation ofParallel Information Retrieval on Symmetrical Multiprocessors," Proceedings of the 14th International Conference for Data Engineering,(ICDE98), Orlando, FL, February 23-27, 1998. [View bibtex]
IR-91: (1996) Lu, Z., Callan, J. and Croft, W. B. , "Applying InferenceNetworks to Multiple Collection Searching," Umass Technical ReportTR96-42. [View bibtex]
IR-89: (1996) Lu, Z., "Measures in Collection Ranking Evaluation," Umass Technical Report TR96-39. [View bibtex]
IR-84: (1996) Allan, J., Ballesteros, L., Callan, J., Croft, W. B. and Lu, Z., "Recent Experiments with INQUERY," Proceedings of the Fourth TREC Retrieval Conference (TREC-4), to be published Spring 1996. [View bibtex]
IR-58: (1995) Callan, J., Lu, Z. and Croft, W. B. , "Searching Distributed Collections With Inference Networks," Proceedings from the 18th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development Information Retrieval, Seattle, WA. July 9-13,1995. [View bibtex]