Efficient multi-dimensional data search has received much attention in centralized systems. However, its implementation in large-scale distributed systems is not a trivial job and...
We have investigated two major issues in Distributed Information Retrieval (DIR), namely: collection selection and search results merging. While most published works on these two ...
Fault tolerance in parallel systems has traditionally been achieved through a combination of redundancy and checkpointing methods. This notion has also been extended to message-pas...
Rajanikanth Batchu, Yoginder S. Dandass, Anthony S...
The notorious "dimensionality curse" is a well-known phenomenon for any multi-dimensional indexes attempting to scale up to high dimensions. One well known approach to o...
Hui Jin, Beng Chin Ooi, Heng Tao Shen, Cui Yu, Aoy...
Web object is defined to represent any meaningful object embedded in web pages (e.g. images, music) or pointed to by hyperlinks (e.g. downloadable files). Users usually search for...