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SAINT
2007
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
High Availability and Scalability Support for Web Applications
A database query caching technique, GlobeCBC, can be used to improve the scalability of Web applications. This paper addresses the availability issues in GlobeCBC. Even though hig...
Louis Rilling, Swaminathan Sivasubramanian, Guilla...
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MMDB
2003
ACM
94views Multimedia» more  MMDB 2003»
15 years 9 months ago
Improving image retrieval effectiveness via multiple queries
Conventional approaches to image retrieval are based on the assumption that relevant images are physically near the query image in some feature space. This is the basis of the clu...
Xiangyu Jin, James C. French
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VLDB
1999
ACM
89views Database» more  VLDB 1999»
15 years 7 months ago
Physical Data Independence, Constraints, and Optimization with Universal Plans
We present an optimization method and algorithm designed for three objectives: physical data independence, semantic optimization, and generalized tableau minimization. The method ...
Alin Deutsch, Lucian Popa, Val Tannen
WWW
2007
ACM
16 years 4 months ago
Determining the user intent of web search engine queries
Determining the user intent of Web searches is a difficult problem due to the sparse data available concerning the searcher. In this paper, we examine a method to determine the us...
Bernard J. Jansen, Danielle L. Booth, Amanda Spink
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FOCS
2009
IEEE
15 years 10 months ago
Distance Oracles for Sparse Graphs
Abstract— Thorup and Zwick, in their seminal work, introduced the approximate distance oracle, which is a data structure that answers distance queries in a graph. For any integer...
Christian Sommer 0002, Elad Verbin, Wei Yu