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ENVSOFT
2006
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15 years 6 months ago
Ten iterative steps in development and evaluation of environmental models
Models are increasingly being relied upon to inform and support natural resource management. They are incorporating an ever broader range of disciplines and now often confront peo...
Anthony J. Jakeman, Rebecca A. Letcher, John P. No...
SIGIR
2009
ACM
16 years 1 months ago
Has adhoc retrieval improved since 1994?
Evaluation forums such as TREC allow systematic measurement and comparison of information retrieval techniques. The goal is consistent improvement, based on reliable comparison of...
Timothy G. Armstrong, Alistair Moffat, William Web...
CCS
2007
ACM
16 years 21 days ago
Pors: proofs of retrievability for large files
In this paper, we define and explore proofs of retrievability (PORs). A POR scheme enables an archive or back-up service (prover) to produce a concise proof that a user (verifier...
Ari Juels, Burton S. Kaliski Jr.
ICDE
2007
IEEE
141views Database» more  ICDE 2007»
16 years 25 days ago
Self Managing Top-k (Summary, Keyword) Indexes in XML Retrieval
Retrieval queries that combine structural constraints with keyword search represent a significant challenge to XML data management systems. Queries are expected to be answered as...
Mariano P. Consens, Xin Gu, Yaron Kanza, Flavio Ri...
SIGMOD
2003
ACM
115views Database» more  SIGMOD 2003»
16 years 6 months ago
Querying Structured Text in an XML Database
XML databases often contain documents comprising structured text. Therefore, it is important to integrate "information retrieval style" query evaluation, which is well-s...
Shurug Al-Khalifa, Cong Yu, H. V. Jagadish