The design of a large component-based software system typically involves the composition of different components. Instead of relying on a free composition of components, we advoca...
This paper presents Carnegie Mellon University’s experiments on the mixed named-page and homepage finding task of the TREC 12 Web Track. Our results were strong; we achieved the...
Data sets in large applications are often too massive to fit completely inside the computer's internal memory. The resulting input/output communication (or I/O) between fast ...
Many existing indexes on text work at the document granularity and are not effective in answering the class of queries where the desired answer is only a term or a phrase. In this...
Time synchronization is an important aspect of sensor network operation. However, it is well known that synchronization error accumulates over multiple hops. This presents a challe...