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IDEAS
2003
IEEE
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15 years 7 months ago
Neighborhood Signatures for Searching P2P Networks
Overlay networks have received a lot of attention due to the recent wide-spread use of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications such as SETI, Napster, Gnutella, and Morpheus. Through repli...
Mei Li, Wang-Chien Lee, Anand Sivasubramaniam
VLDB
1992
ACM
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15 years 6 months ago
Parallelism in a Main-Memory DBMS: The Performance of PRISMA/DB
This paper evaluates the performance of the parallel, main-memory DBMS, PRISMA/DB. First, an architecture for parallel query execution is presented. A performance model for the ex...
Annita N. Wilschut, Jan Flokstra, Peter M. G. Aper...
SIGIR
2010
ACM
15 years 5 months ago
Context-aware ranking in web search
The context of a search query often provides a search engine meaningful hints for answering the current query better. Previous studies on context-aware search were either focused ...
Biao Xiang, Daxin Jiang, Jian Pei, Xiaohui Sun, En...
CIKM
2006
Springer
15 years 3 months ago
Voting for candidates: adapting data fusion techniques for an expert search task
In an expert search task, the users' need is to identify people who have relevant expertise to a topic of interest. An expert search system predicts and ranks the expertise o...
Craig Macdonald, Iadh Ounis
PVLDB
2008
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15 years 1 months ago
Tighter estimation using bottom k sketches
Summaries of massive data sets support approximate query processing over the original data. A basic aggregate over a set of records is the weight of subpopulations specified as a ...
Edith Cohen, Haim Kaplan