We consider the problem of combining ranking results from various sources. In the context of the Web, the main applications include building meta-search engines, combining ranking...
Cynthia Dwork, Ravi Kumar, Moni Naor, D. Sivakumar
There is an increasing trends towards distributed and shared repositories for storing scientific datasets. Developing applications that retrieve and process data from such reposit...
Many applications in information retrieval, natural language processing, data mining, and related fields require a ranking of instances with respect to a specified criteria as op...
Parallel processing networks, even full crossbars, that only implement point-to-point and multicast message passing are inefficient for collective communications because multiple ...
Abstract--Workflow design, mashup configuration, and composite service formation are examples where the capabilities of multiple simple services combined achieve a complex function...