Given the ranked lists of documents returned by multiple search engines in response to a given query, the problem of metasearch is to combine these lists in a way which optimizes ...
User-perceived latency is recognized as the central performance problem in the Web. We systematically measure factors contributing to this latency, across several locations. Our s...
In implementations of non-standard database systems, large objects are often embedded within an aggregate of different types, i.e. a tuple. For a given size and access probabilit...
This paper describes a content-based image retrieval system that employs both higher-level and lower-level vision methodologies separately and in conjunction for the retrieval of ...
: Filtering software is the most commonly used to protect children and young people from illegal and harmful contents on the Internet. Most of this software blocks access to Intern...