Much work has been done on learning various classes of "simple" monotone functions under the uniform distribution. In this paper we give the first unconditional lower bo...
Query expansion is extensively applied in information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Most conventional approaches to query expansion have been developed based on textua...
Understanding the impact of individual and task differences on search result page examination strategies is important in developing improved search engines. Characterizing these e...
Georg Buscher, Ryen W. White, Susan T. Dumais, Jef...
—The Domain Name System (DNS) is an essential part of the Internet infrastructure and provides fundamental services, such as translating host names into IP addresses for Internet...
Lan Wang, Xiaoliang Zhao, Dan Pei, Randy Bush, Dan...
The problem of disk declustering is to distribute data among multiple disks to reduce query response times through parallel I/O. A strictly optimal declustering technique is one t...
Hakan Ferhatosmanoglu, Aravind Ramachandran, Ali S...