This paper deals with one aspect of the index quality of search engines: index freshness. The purpose is to analyse the update strategies of the major Web search engines Google, Y...
This paper describes the Arabic handwriting recognition competition held at ICDAR 2009. This third competition (the first was at ICDAR 2005 and the second at ICDAR 2007) again use...
Abstractions as the Foundation for Storage Infrastructure John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandramohan A. Thekkath, and Lidong Zhou Microsoft Research Silicon Valley Wr...
John MacCormick, Nick Murphy, Marc Najork, Chandra...
Metadata processing is recognized as a central challenge for database research in the next decade. Already, novel desktop data management and search applications (cf. Apple’s Spo...
Analysts have marked Event Processing as the most growing segment in enterprise computing during years 2008 and 2009, furthermore, this trend is expected to continue. Many of the ...