This paper proposes a general framework for searching large distributed repositories. Examples of such repositories include sites with music/video content, distributed digital lib...
Current research in distributed systems focuses on object group models which are designed for scalable systems and provide accessible objects to the entire group. However, dynamic...
Current search engines crawl the Web, download content, and digest this content locally. For multimedia content, this involves considerable volumes of data. Furthermore, this proc...
This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. We specifically address computationa...
Larry Huston, Alex Nizhner, Padmanabhan Pillai, Ra...
In this paper, we outline the basis for a new distributed Bayesian search scheme in which all Bayesian decision makers recognize the same performance objective but do not possess ...