There is an amazing paucity of data that is collected directly on users' personal computers. One key reason for this is the perception among researchers that users are unwill...
Contemporary datacenters house tens of thousands of servers. The servers are closely monitored for operating conditions and utilizations by collecting their performance data (e.g....
Data warehouses are increasingly supplied with data produced by a large number of distributed sensors in many applications: medicine, military, road traffic, weather forecast, util...
Data Grids have been adopted as the next-generation platform by many scientific communities that need to share, access, transport, process and manage large data collections distri...
The large unstructured text collections demand full-text search capabilities from IR systems. Current systems typically allow users only to connect to a single database (or site) ...