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WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
Diversifying web search results
Result diversity is a topic of great importance as more facets of queries are discovered and users expect to find their desired facets in the first page of the results. However,...
Davood Rafiei, Krishna Bharat, Anand Shukla
HPDC
2005
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
Dynamic load balancing for distributed search
This paper examines how computation can be mapped across the nodes of a distributed search system to effectively utilize available resources. We specifically address computationa...
Larry Huston, Alex Nizhner, Padmanabhan Pillai, Ra...
SIGMOD
2008
ACM
126views Database» more  SIGMOD 2008»
14 years 8 months ago
On efficient top-k query processing in highly distributed environments
Lately the advances in centralized database management systems show a trend towards supporting rank-aware query operators, like top-k, that enable users to retrieve only the most ...
Akrivi Vlachou, Christos Doulkeridis, Kjetil N&osl...
SC
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
DI-GRUBER: A Distributed Approach to Grid Resource Brokering
Managing usage service level agreements (USLAs) within environments that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions is a challenging problem. Mai...
Catalin Dumitrescu, Ioan Raicu, Ian T. Foster
MMS
2002
13 years 7 months ago
JINSIL: A middleware for presentation of composite multimedia objects in a distributed environment
In a distributed environment, the presentation of structured, composite multimedia information poses new challenges in dealing with variable bandwidth (BW) requirements and synchro...
Junehwa Song, Asit Dan, Dinkar Sitaram