Query reformulation techniques based on query logs have been studied as a method of capturing user intent and improving retrieval effectiveness. The evaluation of these techniques...
Experimental performance studies on computer systems, including Grids, require deep understandings on their workload characteristics. The need arises from two important and closel...
Resource discovery and monitoring in a distributed Grid environment gives rise to several issues, one of which is the provision of reliable performance and hence, the quality-ofse...
Helene N. Lim Choi Keung, Justin R. D. Dyson, Step...
We present a time-efficient approach to index objects moving on the plane to efficiently answer range queries about their future positions. Each object is moving with non small ve...
Spyros Sioutas, George Papaloukopoulos, Kostas Tsi...
In this paper, we introduce the notion of ranking robustness, which refers to a property of a ranked list of documents that indicates how stable the ranking is in the presence of ...