The paper makes three points of significance for IR research: (1) The Cranfield paradigm of IR evaluation seems to lose power when one looks at human instead of system performance....
Failures of any type are common in current datacenters, partly due to the higher scales of the data stored. As data scales up, its availability becomes more complex, while differe...
Nicolas Bonvin, Thanasis G. Papaioannou, Karl Aber...
Abstract: We propose a new system that is able to handle the entire Personal Dataspace of a user. A Personal Dataspace includes all data pertaining to a user on all his disks and o...
Jens-Peter Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Markus Fä...
Database indices provide a non-discriminative navigational infrastructure to localize tuples of interest. Their maintenance cost is taken during database updates. In this paper, w...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold
Abstract. Online games and location-based services now form the potential application domains for the P2P paradigm. In P2P systems, balancing the workload is essential for overall ...
Mohammed Eunus Ali, Egemen Tanin, Rui Zhang, Lars ...