In some retrieval situations, a system must search across multiple collections. This task, referred to as federated search, occurs for example when searching a distributed index o...
Abstract. We consider the existence of Partition Equilibrium in Resource Selection Games. Super-strong equilibrium, where no subset of players has an incentive to change their stra...
While distributed, heterogeneous collections of computers (“Grids”) can in principle be used as a computing platform, in practice the problems of first discovering and then co...
Chuang Liu, Lingyun Yang, Ian T. Foster, Dave Angu...
Simple resource specification, resource selection, and effective binding are critical capabilities for Grid middleware. We the Virtual Grid, an abstraction for dynamic grid applic...
Yang-Suk Kee, D. Logothetis, Richard Y. Huang, Hen...
Federated text search provides a unified search interface for multiple search engines of distributed text information sources. Resource selection is an important component for fed...