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 ...
Mutual information is widely used in artificial intelligence, in a descriptive way, to measure the stochastic dependence of discrete random variables. In order to address question...
— Systems should be self-predicting. They should continuously monitor themselves and provide quantitative answers to What...if questions about hypothetical workload or resource c...
Eno Thereska, Michael Abd-El-Malek, Jay J. Wylie, ...
With the increasing number of geographical image databases on the Internet, it is a very important issue to know about the most relevant image databases for given user queries, in...
Increasing scale, dynamism, and complexity of hybrid grids make traditional grid resource scheduling approaches difficult. In such grids, where resource volatility and dynamism is...