Evaluating a query can involve manipulation of large volumes of temporary data. When the volume of data becomes too great, activities such as joins and sorting must use disk, and ...
Spam is highly pervasive in P2P file-sharing systems and is difficult to detect automatically before actually downloading a file due to the insufficient and biased description of ...
We have developed an interactive video search system that allows the searcher to rapidly assess query results and easily pivot off those results to form new queries. The system i...
In this paper we present the Brown Dwarf, a distributed system designed to efficiently store, query and update multidimensional data over an unstructured Peer-to-Peer overlay, wit...
We conduct large-scale search engine relevance experiments, using the 12% of queries that contain placenames, matching the placenames to places in the documents, and examining the...