An ad hoc data source is any semistructured data source for which useful data analysis and transformation tools are not readily available. Such data must be queried, transformed a...
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Qili Zhu, Pet...
Product data exchange is the precondition of business interoperation between Web-based firms. However, millions of small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) encode their Web produ...
This paper reviews literature on scalable data structures for searching in a distributed computing environment. Starting with a system where one server manages a file of a given s...
The Super Iterator pattern, like the standard Iterator pattern, traverses an unknown data structure without exposing that structure. With the standard Iterator pattern, clients mu...
Abstract-- Inverted files have been very successful for document retrieval, but sponsored search is different. Inverted files are designed to find documents that match the query (a...