Decision support queries that scan large indexes can suffer significant degradation in I/O performance due to index fragmentation. DBAs rely on rules of thumb that use index size a...
“Peer-to-peer” systems like Napster and Gnutella have recently become popular for sharing information. In this paper, we study the relevant issues and tradeoffs in designing a...
We have designed, implemented and evaluated a resource adaptive distributed information sharing system where automatic adjustments are made internally in our information sharing sy...
Hans Vatne Hansen, Vera Goebel, Thomas Plagemann, ...
—Coupling in software applications is often used as an indicator of external quality attributes such as fault-proneness. In fact, the correlation of coupling metrics and faults i...
Some applications have to present their results in the form of ranked lists. This is the case of many information retrieval applications, in which documents must be sorted accordi...
Adriano Veloso, Humberto Mossri de Almeida, Marcos...