— To address the rapid growth of the Internet, modern Web search engines have to adopt distributed organizations, where the collection of indexed documents is partitioned among s...
Diego Puppin, Fabrizio Silvestri, Raffaele Perego,...
The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
Framework-intensive applications (e.g., Web applications) heavily use temporary data structures, often resulting in performance bottlenecks. This paper presents an optimized blend...
Users’ past search behaviour provides a rich context that an information retrieval system can use to tailor its search results to suit an individual’s or a community’s infor...
Hyper-Text Structured Query Language (HTSQL) is a standardizable middleware component that translates a HTTP request into an SQL query, performs the query against a relational dat...