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HPDC
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
A Performance Study of Monitoring and Information Services for Distributed Systems
Monitoring and information services form a key component of a distributed system, or Grid. A quantitative study of such services can aid in understanding the performance limitatio...
Xuehai Zhang, Jeffrey L. Freschl, Jennifer M. Scho...
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
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13 years 10 months ago
LibraRing: An Architecture for Distributed Digital Libraries Based on DHTs
We present a digital library architecture based on distributed hash tables. We discuss the main components of this architecture and the protocols for offering information retrieva...
Christos Tryfonopoulos, Stratos Idreos, Manolis Ko...
ICNP
2003
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Mobile Distributed Information Retrieval for Highly-Partitioned Networks
We propose and evaluate a mobile, peer-to-peer Information Retrieval system. Such a system can, for example, support medical care in a disaster by allowing access to a large colle...
Katrina M. Hanna, Brian Neil Levine, R. Manmatha
IPM
2008
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13 years 5 months ago
Global term weights in distributed environments
This paper examines the estimation of global term weights (such as IDF) in information retrieval scenarios where a global view on the collection is not available. In particular, t...
Hans Friedrich Witschel
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