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SIGIR
2006
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Load balancing for term-distributed parallel retrieval
Large-scale web and text retrieval systems deal with amounts of data that greatly exceed the capacity of any single machine. To handle the necessary data volumes and query through...
Alistair Moffat, William Webber, Justin Zobel
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 6 months ago
Bridging the P2P and WWW Divide with DISCOVIR - DIStributed COntent-based Visual Information Retrieval
In the light of image retrieval evolving from text annotation to content-based and from standalone applications to web-based search engines, we foresee the need for deploying cont...
Ka Cheung Sia, Cheuk Hang Ng, Chi-Hang Chan
HPDC
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
enabling cross-layer optimizations in storage systems with custom metadata
Today, several data-storage systems allow applications to create and manage custom metadata to improve data search and navigability in large-scale storage systems. Our thesis is t...
Elizeu Santos-Neto, Samer Al-Kiswany, Nazareno And...
SIGIR
2011
ACM
12 years 8 months ago
The economics in interactive information retrieval
Searching is inherently an interactive process usually requiring numerous iterations of querying and assessing in order to find the desired amount of relevant information. Essent...
Leif Azzopardi
PODC
2010
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Brief announcement: a shared disk on distributed storage
A shared disk implementation on distributed storage requires consistent behavior of disk operations. Deterministic consensus on such behavior is impossible when even a single stor...
Stefan Vijzelaar, Herbert Bos, Wan Fokkink