Client side caching of location dependent queries is an important technique for improving performance of location-based services. Most of the existing research in this area has fo...
Speculative execution of information gathering plans can dramatically reduce the effect of source I/O latencies on overall performance. However, the utility of speculation is clos...
Standard approaches to evaluating and comparing information retrieval systems compute simple averages of performance statistics across individual topics to measure the overall sys...
Modern corporations operate in an extremely complex environment and strongly depend on all kinds of information resources across the enterprise. Unfortunately, with the growth of ...
Data warehousing and on-line analytical processing (OLAP) are essential for decision support applications. Common OLAP operations include for example drill down, roll up, pivot an...