In this paper we propose a multicast-on-large-demand (MOLD) approach to the flash crowd problem. A MOLD Web server may dynamically open a multicast channel for resources when dete...
A predictive tool to simulate human visual search behavior would help interface designers inform and validate their design. Such a tool would benefit from a semantic component tha...
Many content-oriented applications require a scalable text index. Building such an index is challenging. In addition to the logic of inserting and searching documents, developers ...
The critical functionality of many software applications relies on code that performs mathematically complex computations. However, such code is often difficult to test owing to t...
The inclusion of document length factors has been a major topic in the development of retrieval models. We believe that current models can be further improved by more refined est...