A central problem in executing performance critical parallel and distributed applications on shared networks is the selection of computation nodes and communication paths for exec...
In this paper we show the power of sampling techniques in designing efficient distributed algorithms. In particular, we show that using sampling techniques, on some networks, sele...
In this paper we demonstrate that in an ideal Distributed Information Retrieval environment, taking the ability of each collection server to return relevant documents into account...
Intelligent Web search engines are extremely popular now. Currently, only commercial centralized search engines like Google can process terabytes of Web data. Alternative search en...
Sergey Chernov, Pavel Serdyukov, Matthias Bender, ...
The TREC .GOV collection makes a valuable web testbed for distributed information retrieval methods because it is naturally partitioned and includes 725 web-oriented queries with ...