We study the problem of continuous monitoring of top-k queries over multiple non-synchronized streams. Assuming a sliding window model, this general problem has been a well addres...
Software agents help automate a variety of tasks including those involved in buying and selling products over the internet. The need for handling complex highly configurable produ...
Magda Bahaa Eldin Fayek, Ihab A. Talkhan, Khalil S...
The representation of information collections needs to be optimized for human cognition. While documents often include rich visual components, collections, including personal coll...
Leveraging clickthrough data has become a popular approach for evaluating and optimizing information retrieval systems. Although data is plentiful, one must take care when interpr...
A multi-object operation incurs communication or synchronization overhead when the requested objects are distributed over different nodes. The object pair correlations (the probab...