Peer-to-peer (P2P) networks represent an effective way to share information, since there are no central points of failure or bottleneck. However, the flip side to the distributive...
We believe that design patterns can be an effective means of consolidating and communicating program construction expertise for functional programming, just as they have proven to...
: Software practitioners recognise the importance of realistic estimates of effort for the successful management of software projects, the Web being no exception. Estimates are nec...
The probability that a term appears in relevant documents ( ) is a fundamental quantity in several probabilistic retrieval models, however it is difficult to estimate without rele...
Results caching is an efficient technique for reducing the query processing load, hence it is commonly used in real search engines. This technique, however, bounds the maximum hit...