Community QA portals provide an important resource for non-factoid question-answering. The inherent noisiness of user-generated data makes the identification of high-quality cont...
—We investigate methods to improve the performance of algorithms for automatic storage reclamation of object databases. These algorithms are based on a technique called partition...
Jonathan E. Cook, Alexander L. Wolf, Benjamin G. Z...
Column-store database systems open new vistas for improved maintenance through self-organization. Individual columns are the focal point, which simplify balancing conflicting requ...
Recently many large scale computer systems are built in order to meet the high storage and processing demands of compute and data-intensive applications. MapReduce is one of the mo...
This paper reports on experiments submitted for the robust task at CLEF 2007. We applied a system previously tested for ad-hoc retrieval. Experiments were focused on the effect of...