Network service providers purchase large point-to-point connections from network owners, then offer individual users network access at a price. Appropriately provisioning (purchas...
In recent years, the data management community has begun to consider situations in which data access is closely tied to network routing and distributed acquisition: examples includ...
Mengmeng Liu, Nicholas E. Taylor, Wenchao Zhou, Za...
It is widely realized that the integration of database and information retrieval techniques will provide users with a wide range of high quality services. In this paper, we study ...
Bolin Ding, Jeffrey Xu Yu, Shan Wang, Lu Qin, Xiao...
Many of today's Web applications support just simple trial-anderror retrievals: supply one set of parameters, obtain one set of results. For a user who wants to examine a num...