In this paper, we propose a stochastic model to describe how search service providers charge client companies based on users' queries for the keywords related to these compan...
The networking and distributed systems communities have recently explored a variety of new network architectures, both for applicationlevel overlay networks, and as prototypes for...
Boon Thau Loo, Tyson Condie, Minos N. Garofalakis,...
Abstract. In the Web environment, rich, diverse sources of heterogeneous and distributed data are ubiquitous. In fact, even the information characterizing a single entity - like, f...
Muhammad Intizar Ali, Reinhard Pichler, Hong Linh ...
Investments on multimedia technology enable us to store many more reflections of the real world in digital world as videos. By recording videos about real world entities, we carry...
The number and size of information services available on the internet has been growing exponentially over the past few years. This growth has created an urgent need for information...