Given a record set D and a query score function F, a top-k query returns k records from D, whose values of function F on their attributes are the highest. In this paper, we investi...
We present a method for automatically extracting from a running system an indexable signature that distills the essential characteristic from a system state and that can be subjec...
Abstract. The PageRank algorithm is used today within web information retrieval to provide a content-neutral ranking metric over web pages. It employs power method iterations to so...
The suitability of Peer-to-Peer (P2P) approaches for fulltext web retrieval has recently been questioned because of the claimed unacceptable bandwidth consumption induced by retri...
Ivana Podnar, Martin Rajman, Toan Luu, Fabius Klem...
We focus on an important problem in the space of ubiquitous computing, namely, programming support for the distributed heterogeneous computing elements that make up this environme...