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,...
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...
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 ...
Managing usage service level agreements (USLAs) within environments that integrate participants and resources spanning multiple physical institutions is a challenging problem. Mai...
In a distributed environment, the presentation of structured, composite multimedia information poses new challenges in dealing with variable bandwidth (BW) requirements and synchro...