Recently renewed interest in scalable database systems for shared nothing clusters has been supported by replication protocols based on group communication that are aimed at seaml...
Relevance feedback (RF) is an interactive process which refines the retrievals by utilizing user’s feedback history. Most researchers strive to develop new RF techniques and ign...
Peng-Yeng Yin, Bir Bhanu, Kuang-Cheng Chang, Anlei...
We present a non-operational approach to specifying and analyzing shared memory consistency models. The method uses higher order logic to capture a complete set of ordering constra...
Yue Yang, Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, Gary Lindstrom, K...
Preference elicitation (PE) is an important component of interactive decision support systems that aim to make optimal recommendations to users by actively querying their preferen...
A true video-on-demand(TVOD) system lets users view any video program, at any time, and perform any VCR functions, but its peruser video delivery cost is too expensive. A near vide...