One problem seriously affecting CLIR performance is the processing of queries with embedded foreign names. A proper noun dictionary is never complete rendering name translation fr...
The Internet Distance Map Service (IDMaps) [3] provides distance estimates between any pair of hosts connected to the Internet. The IDMaps system comprises two component types: Tr...
Global e-Commerce and mass-outreach e-Governance programs have brought into sharp focus the need for database systems to store and manipulate text data efficiently in a suite of ...
We argue that designing overlay services to independently probe the Internet—with the goal of making informed application-specific routing decisions—is an untenable strategy....
In this paper, we introduce self-tuning histograms. Although similar in structure to traditional histograms, these histograms infer data distributions not by examining the data or...