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WIDM
2004
ACM
15 years 3 months ago
Specialisation dynamics in federated web search
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...
Rinat Khoussainov, Nicholas Kushmerick
IADIS
2004
14 years 11 months ago
A New Performance Evaluation Technique for Web Information Retrieval Systems
The performance evaluation of an information retrieval system is a decisive aspect for the measure of the improvements in search technology. Our work intends to provide a framewor...
Fidel Cacheda, Francisco Puentes, Victor Carneiro
SIGMOD
1998
ACM
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15 years 2 months ago
Wavelet-Based Histograms for Selectivity Estimation
Query optimization is an integral part of relational database management systems. One important task in query optimization is selectivity estimation, that is, given a query P, we ...
Yossi Matias, Jeffrey Scott Vitter, Min Wang
WWW
2009
ACM
15 years 10 months ago
Efficient application placement in a dynamic hosting platform
Web hosting providers are increasingly looking into dynamic hosting to reduce costs and improve the performance of their platforms. Instead of provisioning fixed resources to each...
Zakaria Al-Qudah, Hussein A. Alzoubi, Mark Allman,...
WISE
2005
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Scalable Instance Retrieval for the Semantic Web by Approximation
Abstract. Approximation has been identified as a potential way of reducing the complexity of logical reasoning. Here we explore approximation for speeding up instance retrieval in...
Holger Wache, Perry Groot, Heiner Stuckenschmidt