Databases are continuously evolving environments, where design constructs are added, removed or updated rather often. Small changes in the database configurations might impact a l...
George Papastefanatos, Fotini Anagnostou, Yannis V...
Search engines process queries conjunctively to restrict the size of the answer set. Further, it is not rare to observe a mismatch between the vocabulary used in the text of Web p...
This paper characterizes the query behavior of peers in a peer-topeer (P2P) file sharing system. In contrast to previous work, which provides various aggregate workload statistics...
Alexander Klemm, Christoph Lindemann, Mary K. Vern...
Major search engines currently use the history of a user's actions (e.g., queries, clicks) to personalize search results. In this paper, we present a new personalized service...
Search engines represent a key component of Web economy these days. Despite that, there is not much technical literature available on their design, fine tuning, and internal oper...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ramurti A. Barbosa, Paulo B...