Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...
The Semantic Web envisions a World Wide Web in which data is described with rich semantics and applications can pose complex queries. To this point, researchers have defined new l...
Alon Y. Halevy, Zachary G. Ives, Peter Mork, Igor ...
We show that a popular variant of the well known k-d tree data structure satisfies an important packing lemma. This variant is a binary spatial partitioning tree T defined on a set...
Matthew Dickerson, Christian A. Duncan, Michael T....
The previous research on cluster-based servers has focused on homogeneous systems. However, real-life clusters are almost invariably heterogeneous in terms of the performance, cap...
Taliver Heath, Bruno Diniz, Enrique V. Carrera, Wa...
Although the Web lets users freely browse and publish information, most Web information is unauthorized in contrast to conventional mass media. Therefore, it is not always credibl...