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...
We describe our efforts in providing REINAS (Realtime Environmental Information Network and Analysis System) weather visualization products on demand through the web. As the REINA...
The paper introduces a model of the Web as an in nite, semistructured set of objects. We reconsider the classical notions of genericity and computability of queries in this new con...
We identify crucial design issues in building a distributed inverted index for a large collection of web pages. We introduce a novel pipelining technique for structuring the core ...
— The emergence of wireless sensor networks (WSN) and RFID technology are starting to make the ubiquitous computing vision a reality, as they provide the means to obtain informat...