Distributed search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-speciļ¬c search engines provide search services, and metasearchers distribute userā...
Abstract. A Service-Level Agreement (SLA) provides surety for speciļ¬c quality attributes to the consumers of services. However, the current SLAs oļ¬ered by cloud providers do no...
Waheed Iqbal, Matthew N. Dailey, David Carrera, Pa...
Cardinality estimation is the problem of estimating the number of tuples returned by a query; it is a fundamentally important task in data management, used in query optimization, ...
Collaborative tagging applications have become a popular tool allowing Internet users to manage online resources with tags. Most collaborative tagging applications permit unsuperv...
Jonathan Gemmell, Maryam Ramezani, Thomas Schimole...
Parallel programmers typically assume that all resources required for a programās execution are dedicated to that purpose. However, in local and wide area networks, contention f...
Alain J. Roy, Ian T. Foster, William Gropp, Nichol...