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Spyglass: Fast, Scalable Metadata Search for Large-Scale Storage Systems
The scale of today's storage systems has made it increasingly difficult to find and manage files. To address this, we have developed Spyglass, a file metadata search system t...
Andrew W. Leung, Minglong Shao, Timothy Bisson, Sh...

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15 years 6 months ago
Segmenting Preferences and Habits of Transit Users and Non-Users
Ridership is a key goal in the transit industry. Conventional transit analysis focuses on two types of users—captive and choice riders—but rarely aims to understand the prefe...
Kevin J. Krizek, Ahmed El-Geneidy
ICDE
2003
IEEE
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14 years 10 months ago
Implementing P3P Using Database Technology
Platform for Privacy Preferences (P3P) is the most significant effort currently underway to enable web users to gain control over their private information. P3P provides mechanism...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
User-centric content freshness metrics for search engines
In order to return relevant search results, a search engine must keep its local repository synchronized to the Web, but it is usually impossible to attain perfect freshness. Hence...
Ali Dasdan, Xinh Huynh
WWW
2003
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
A Light-weight, Temporary File System for Large-scale Web Servers
Several recent studies have pointed out that file I/Os can be a major performance bottleneck for some large Web servers. Large I/O buffer caches often do not work effectively for ...
Dong Li, Jun Wang