Large flash disks, or solid state drives (SSDs), have become an attractive alternative to magnetic hard disks, due to their high random read performance, low energy consumption a...
Yinan Li, Bingsheng He, Jun Yang 0001, Qiong Luo, ...
Distributed heterogeneous search systems are an emerging phenomenon in Web search, in which independent topic-specific search engines provide search services, and metasearchers d...
Similarity search and similarity join on strings are important for applications such as duplicate detection, error detection, data cleansing, or comparison of biological sequences....
In standard text retrieval systems, the documents are gathered and indexed on a single server. In distributed information retrieval (DIR), the documents are held in multiple colle...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to indexing multidimensional data that is particularly suitable for the efficient incremental processing of nearest neighbor quer...