The vast majority of the features used in today’s commercially deployed image search systems employ techniques that are largely indistinguishable from text-document search – t...
In a dynamic service oriented environment it is desirable for service consumers and providers to offer and obtain guarantees regarding their capabilities and requirements. WS-Agre...
Nicole Oldham, Kunal Verma, Amit P. Sheth, Farshad...
Never before have so many information sources been available. Most are accessible on-line and some exist on the Internet alone. However, this large information quantity makes inte...
—“Big Data” in map-reduce (M-R) clusters is often fundamentally temporal in nature, as are many analytics tasks over such data. For instance, display advertising uses Behavio...
Badrish Chandramouli, Jonathan Goldstein, Songyun ...
Sponsored search is one of the major sources of revenue for search engines on the World Wide Web. It has been observed that while showing ads for every query maximizes shortterm r...
Sandeep Pandey, Kunal Punera, Marcus Fontoura, Van...