Distributed hash table (DHT) networks based on consistent hashing functions have an inherent load balancing problem. The problem becomes more severe due to the heterogeneity of ne...
In this paper we present a technique for reducing response delay for web systems, which is based on a proactive cache scheme. It combines predictive pre-fetching and streaming to ...
Webcams, microphones, pressure gauges and other sensors provide exciting new opportunities for querying and monitoring the physical world. In this paper we focus on querying wide ...
Amol Deshpande, Suman Kumar Nath, Phillip B. Gibbo...
: In modern information systems the dominant retrieval paradigms have shifted from exact matching towards retrieving a list of the most relevant objects. This is because users usua...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
Query folding is a technique for determining how a query may be answered using a given set of resources, which may include materialized views, cached results of previous queries, ...