Self-managing solutions have recently attracted a lot of interest from the database community. The need for self-* properties is more evident in distributed applications comprising...
Inverted index structures are the mainstay of modern text retrieval systems. They can be constructed quickly using off-line mergebased methods, and provide efficient support for ...
All information exchange on the Internet ? whether through full text, controlled vocabularies, ontologies, or other mechanisms ? ultimately requires that that an information provi...
We present a pipelining, dynamically usercontrollable reorder operator, for use in dataintensive applications. Allowing the user to reorder the data delivery on the fly increases...
Vijayshankar Raman, Bhaskaran Raman, Joseph M. Hel...
To help users cope with information overload, Selective Dissemination of Information SDI will increasingly become an important tool in wide area information systems. In an SDI ser...