Several studies have found that the Cranfield approach to evaluation can report significant performance differences between retrieval systems for which little to no performance...
Accessing information sources to retrieve data requested by a user can be expensive, especially when dealing with distributed information sources. One way to reduce this cost is t...
This paper presents the SRIS-HC – an Patient Electronic Medical Record System with support for Content-based Image Retrieval, developed aiming at demonstrating the benefits of h...
Agma J. M. Traina, Natalia Abdala Rosa, Caetano Tr...
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...
Abstract. Peer-to-peer networks have often been touted as the ultimate solution to scalability. Although cooperative techniques have been initially used almost exclusively for cont...