Web search engines are often implemented as centralized systems. Designing and implementing a Web search engine in a distributed environment is a challenging engineering task that...
Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Aristides Gionis, Flavio J...
We propose a General Markov Framework for computing page importance. Under the framework, a Markov Skeleton Process is used to model the random walk conducted by the web surfer on...
Bin Gao, Tie-Yan Liu, Zhiming Ma, Taifeng Wang, Ha...
In this demonstration1 we present an approach to engineering service brokering requirements and capabilities using the concepts of Service Modes. The demonstration illustrates buil...
Howard Foster, Arun Mukhija, David S. Rosenblum, S...
Curating information from the literature for storage in databases is a crucial task in biological research, and many groups assign a particular person or team to that process. We ...
— Planetary exploration systems, operating under severe environmental and operating conditions, have thus far successfully employed carefully calibrated stereo cameras and manipu...