Web search engines consistently collect information about users interaction with the system: they record the query they issued, the URL of presented and selected documents along w...
Modeling the reliability of distributed systems requires a good understanding of the reliability of the components. Careful modeling allows highly fault-tolerant distributed appli...
In this paper we process and analyze web search engine query and click data from the perspective of the documents (URL’s) selected. We initially define possible document categor...
We propose a new method for rapid 3D object indexing that combines feature-based methods with coarse alignment-based matching techniques. Our approach achieves a sublinear complexi...
Bogdan Matei, Ying Shan, Harpreet S. Sawhney, Yi T...
We present a general framework for the task of extracting specific information “on demand” from a large corpus such as the Web under resource-constraints. Given a database wit...