The intent of peer data management systems (PDMS) is to share as much data as possible. However, in many applications leveraging sensitive data, users demand adequate mechanisms to...
Organising large-scale Web information retrieval systems into hierarchies of topic-specific search resources can improve both the quality of results and the efficient use of com...
This paper describes a question answering system that is designed to capitalize on the tremendous amount of data that is now available online. Most question answering systems use ...
Susan T. Dumais, Michele Banko, Eric Brill, Jimmy ...
Collaborative web applications such as Facebook, Flickr and Yelp present new challenges for storing and querying large amounts of data. As users and developers are focused more on...
Michael Armbrust, Armando Fox, David A. Patterson,...
There is an increasing trends towards distributed and shared repositories for storing scientific datasets. Developing applications that retrieve and process data from such reposit...