We describe a case study that uses grid computing techniques to support the collaborative learning of high school students investigating cosmic rays. Students gather and upload sc...
Marjorie Bardeen, Eric Gilbert, Thomas Jordan, Pau...
We consider a network of autonomous peers forming a logically global but physically distributed search engine, where every peer has its own local collection generated by independe...
Josiane Xavier Parreira, Sebastian Michel, Gerhard...
It has become a promising direction to measure similarity of Web search queries by mining the increasing amount of clickthrough data logged by Web search engines, which record the...
Qiankun Zhao, Steven C. H. Hoi, Tie-Yan Liu, Soura...
If the model of free-form queries, which has proved successful for HTML based search on the Web, is made available for Grid services, it will serve as a powerful tool for scientis...
Web communities are web virtual broadcasting spaces where people can freely discuss anything. While such communities function as discussion boards, they have even greater value as...