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ADBIS
2006
Springer
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16 years 4 days ago
A Middleware-Based Approach to Database Caching
Database caching supports declarative query processing close to the application. Using a full-fledged DBMS as cache manager, it enables the evaluation of specific project-select-...
Andreas Bühmann, Theo Härder, Christian ...
INFOCOM
2002
IEEE
15 years 11 months ago
Design and Scalability of NLS, a Scalable Naming and Location Service
This paper sketches the design, and presents a scalability analysis and evaluation of NLS, a scalable naming and location service. NLS resolves textual names to the nearest of a s...
Y. Charlie Hu, Daniel Rodney, Peter Druschel
WWW
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
An axiomatic approach for result diversification
Understanding user intent is key to designing an effective ranking system in a search engine. In the absence of any explicit knowledge of user intent, search engines want to diver...
Sreenivas Gollapudi, Aneesh Sharma
TVCG
2008
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15 years 6 months ago
Visual Perception and Mixed-Initiative Interaction for Assisted Visualization Design
This paper describes the integration of perceptual guidelines from human vision with an AI-based mixed-initiative search strategy. The result is a visualization assistant called Vi...
Christopher G. Healey, Sarat Kocherlakota, Vivek R...
SIGIR
2004
ACM
15 years 11 months ago
Usefulness of hyperlink structure for query-biased topic distillation
In this paper, we introduce an information theoretic method for estimating the usefulness of the hyperlink structure induced from the set of retrieved documents. We evaluate the e...
Vassilis Plachouras, Iadh Ounis