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CIKM
2003
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Automated index management for distributed web search
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
ICDE
2005
IEEE
260views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
A Comparative Evaluation of Transparent Scaling Techniques for Dynamic Content Servers
We study several transparent techniques for scaling dynamic content web sites, and we evaluate their relative impact when used in combination. Full transparency implies strong dat...
Cristiana Amza, Alan L. Cox, Willy Zwaenepoel
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 4 months ago
A probabilistic model based approach for blended search
In this paper, we propose to model the blended search problem by assuming conditional dependencies among queries, VSEs and search results. The probability distributions of this mo...
Ning Liu, Jun Yan, Zheng Chen
SIGMOD
2001
ACM
108views Database» more  SIGMOD 2001»
15 years 10 months ago
Improving Index Performance through Prefetching
This paper proposes and evaluates Prefetching B+ -Trees pB+ -Trees, which use prefetching to accelerate two important operations on B+ -Tree indices: searches and range scans. To ...
Shimin Chen, Phillip B. Gibbons, Todd C. Mowry
WWW
2011
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Low-infrastructure methods to improve internet access for mobile users in emerging regions
As information technology supports more aspects of modern life, digital access has become an important tool for developing regions to lift themselves from poverty. Though broadban...
Sibren Isaacman, Margaret Martonosi