The classical (ad hoc) document retrieval problem has been traditionally approached through ranking according to heuristically developed functions (such as tf.idf or bm25) or gene...
One of the important issues in the design of future generation high-speed networks is to provide differentiated services to different types of applications with various time const...
Peer-to-peer overlay networks have grown significantly in size and sophistication over the last years. Meanwhile, distributed hash tables (DHT) provide efficient means to create g...
In order to combine hypertext with database facilities, we show how to extract an effective storage structure from given instance relationships. The schema of the structure recogn...
A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different sites...