The direct application of standard ranking techniques to retrieve individual elements from a collection of XML documents often produces a result set in which the top ranks are dom...
A large number of question and answer pairs can be collected from question and answer boards and FAQ pages on the Web. This paper proposes an automatic method of finding the ques...
We present the initial results from our evaluation study on the performance implications of anycast in DNS, using four anycast servers deployed at top-level DNS zones. Our results...
Assessing semantic similarity between text documents is a crucial aspect in Information Retrieval systems. In this work, we propose to use hyperlink information to derive a simila...
In this paper, we propose a novel energy-efficient approach, a localized routing tree (LRT) coupled with a route redirection (RR) strategy, to support various types of queries. LR...
Jie Lian, Lei Chen 0002, Kshirasagar Naik, M. Tame...