Web search engines crawl the web to fetch the data that they index. In this paper we re-examine that need, and evaluate the network costs associated with data acquisition, and alt...
Nick Craswell, Francis Crimmins, David Hawking, Al...
Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...
Knowledge discovery is the most desirable end product of an enterprise information system. Researches from different areas recognize that a new generation of intelligent tools for...
Collaborative filtering is a popular approach for building recommender systems. Current collaborative filtering algorithms are accurate but also computationally expensive, and so ...
As the complexity and scale of current scientific and engineering applications grow, managing and transporting the large amounts of data they generate is quickly becoming a signif...