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Though database technology has been remarkably successful in building a large market and adapting to the changes of the last three decades, its impact on the broader market of inf...
Bishwaranjan Bhattacharjee, Joseph S. Glider, Rich...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...
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Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) provide a scalable solution for data sharing in P2P systems. To ensure high data availability, DHTs typically rely on data replication, yet without ...