IRWire 0.0.0 Information Retrieval Lab., Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology ================================= IRWire is an open source, Java based tool designed for information retrieval research in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. IRWire supports data crawling and provides result ranking functionality as well as a number data analysis. FEATURES: --------- This version of IRWire includes: - Data crawler: an additional functionality built on top of LimeWire client (www.limewire.org). This modul allows crawling of shared contents in p2p Gnutella networks and logging user queries. - Search result ranker: an additional ranking functionality built on top of LimeWire client. This allows search results to be ranked in different, more efficient ways. - Data analyzer: a Java tool for analyzing collected data. REQUIREMENTS: ------------ - Sun's Java SDK - MySQL AB and MySQL Browser - Eclipse - LimeWire source code (included in this distribution) - Java libraries (included in this distribution) mysql-connector-java-3.1.13-bin.jar jfreechart-1.0.13.jar jcommon-1.0.6.jar IN THIS DISTRIBUTION: -------------------- - readme.txt This file - IR-Wire-Installation.pdf Installation instructions - IR-Wire-Documentation.pdf List of changes made to LimeWire and data schema - IR-Wire-Manual.pdf User Manual - irwirescript.sql MySQL script file to create IR-Wire database - analyzer Sub-folder contains source code of IR-Wire data analyzer - crawler Sub-folder contains source code and modifications of LimeWire client INSTALLATION: ------------ - Download IRWire-0.0.0.zip from http://ir.iit.edu/~waigen/proj/pirs/ - Unzip the downloaded file and follow installation instructions in IR-Wire-Installation.pdf CONTACT INFORMATION: ------------------- Wai Gen Yee (waigen@ir.iit.edu) Ophir Frieder (ophir@ir.iit.edu) Linh Thai Nguyen (nguylin@iit.edu) Dongmei Jia (jiadong@iit.edu) Information Retrieval Lab., Computer Science Department, Illinois Institute of Technology, 10 W 31st St., Chicago, IL 60616, USA. Source code and datasets downloadable from: http://ir.iit.edu/~waigen/proj/pirs/ Apr, 2007.