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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Active relevance feedback for difficult queries
Relevance feedback has been demonstrated to be an effective strategy for improving retrieval accuracy. The existing relevance feedback algorithms based on language models and vect...
Zuobing Xu, Ram Akella
ICDCS
2007
IEEE
14 years 3 months ago
STEP: Sequentiality and Thrashing Detection Based Prefetching to Improve Performance of Networked Storage Servers
State-of-the-art networked storage servers are equipped with increasingly powerful computing capability and large DRAM memory as storage caches. However, their contribution to the...
Shuang Liang, Song Jiang, Xiaodong Zhang
POPL
2011
ACM
13 years 1 days ago
Safe nondeterminism in a deterministic-by-default parallel language
A number of deterministic parallel programming models with strong safety guarantees are emerging, but similar support for nondeterministic algorithms, such as branch and bound sea...
Robert L. Bocchino Jr., Stephen Heumann, Nima Hona...
WWW
2008
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
iRobot: an intelligent crawler for web forums
We study in this paper the Web forum crawling problem, which is a very fundamental step in many Web applications, such as search engine and Web data mining. As a typical user-crea...
Rui Cai, Jiang-Ming Yang, Wei Lai, Yida Wang, Lei ...
WWW
2004
ACM
14 years 10 months ago
Sic transit gloria telae: towards an understanding of the web's decay
The rapid growth of the web has been noted and tracked extensively. Recent studies have however documented the dual phenomenon: web pages have small half lives, and thus the web e...
Ziv Bar-Yossef, Andrei Z. Broder, Ravi Kumar, Andr...