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ADC
2004
Springer
13 years 10 months ago
2004
Springer
Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
2009
ACM
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
BIBE
2008
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
2008
IEEE
— The Smith-Waterman algorithm is a dynamic programming method for determining optimal local alignments between nucleotide or protein sequences. However, it suffers from quadrati...
HICSS
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
2005
IEEE
This paper explores search behavior of online shoppers. Information economics literature suggests that search cost in electronic markets has essentially been reduced to zero as co...
ICDE
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
2008
IEEE
In a mobile service scenario, users query a server for nearby points of interest but they may not want to disclose their locations to the service. Intuitively, location privacy may...