In this paper, we report our experiments in the TREC 2008 Relevance Feedback Track. Our main goal is to study a novel problem in feedback, i.e., optimization of the balance of the...
This paper focuses on parallel query optimization. We consider the operator problem and introduce a new class of execution strategies called Linear-Oriented Bushy Trees (LBTs). Co...
Decentralized and unstructured peer-to-peer networks such as Gnutella are attractive for certain applications because they require no centralized directories and no precise contro...
Qin Lv, Pei Cao, Edith Cohen, Kai Li, Scott Shenke...
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Temporal Representation and Reasoning (TIME-06), Budapest, Hungary, June 2006. IEEE Computer Society Press. Real-w...
The power of search is with no doubt one of the main aspects for the success of the Web. Currently available search engines on the Web allow to return results with a high precisio...