Organizations have long had the need to record and protect the knowledge that is their intellectual capital. However, the primary burden for knowledge management has been borne by...
Beatrix Zimmermann, Michael E. Atwood, Sabina Webb...
We analyze various stochastic processes for generating permutations almost uniformly at random in distributed and parallel systems. All our protocols are simple, elegant and are b...
This paper describes Armil, a meta-search engine that groups the web snippets returned by auxiliary search engines into disjoint labeled clusters. The cluster labels generated by A...
Filippo Geraci, Marco Pellegrini, Marco Maggini, F...
This paper presents our experience developing applications in Jade, a portable, implicitly parallel programming language designed for exploiting task-level concurrency. Jade progr...
The rapid growth of the World-Wide Web poses unprecedented scaling challenges for general-purpose crawlers and search engines. In this paper we describe a new hypertext resource d...
Soumen Chakrabarti, Martin van den Berg, Byron Dom