We present a new technique, path slicing, that takes as input a possibly infeasible path to a target location, and eliminates all the operations that are irrelevant towards the re...
In recent software transactional memory proposals, a contention manager module is responsible for ensuring that the system as a whole makes progress. A number of contention manage...
A query independent feature, relating perhaps to document content, linkage or usage, can be transformed into a static, per-document relevance weight for use in ranking. The challe...
Nick Craswell, Stephen E. Robertson, Hugo Zaragoza...
Web Directories are repositories of Web pages organized in a hierarchy of topics and sub-topics. In this paper, we present DirectoryRank, a ranking framework that orders the pages...
Vlassis Krikos, Sofia Stamou, Pavlos Kokosis, Alex...
An important issue arising from P2P applications is how to accurately and efficiently retrieve the required Web services from large-scale repositories. This paper resolves this is...