This paper proposes a cache hierarchy that enables Web search engines to efficiently process user queries. The different caches in the hierarchy are used to store pieces of data w...
Abstract. With the emergence of multi-core CPU (or Chip-level MultiProcessor -CMP-), it is essential to develop techniques that capitalize on CMP's advantages to speed up very...
Ecommerce is developing into a fast-growing channel for new business, so a strong presence in this domain could prove essential to the success of numerous commercial organizations...
This paper studies the problem of unified ranked retrieval of heterogeneous XML documents and Web data. We propose an effective search engine called Sailer to adaptively and versa...
Given that commercial search engines cover billions of web pages, efficiently managing the corresponding volumes of disk-resident data needed to answer user queries quickly is a f...