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OSS
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Heartbeat: Measuring Active User Base and Potential User Interest in FLOSS Projects
This paper presents a novel method and algorithm to measure the size of an open source project’s user base and the level of potential user interest that it generates. Previously ...
Andrea Wiggins, James Howison, Kevin Crowston
SIGIR
2002
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Automatic evaluation of world wide web search services
Users of the World-Wide Web are not only confronted by an immense overabundance of information, but also by a plethora of tools for searching for the web pages that suit their inf...
Abdur Chowdhury, Ian Soboroff
TJS
2008
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13 years 7 months ago
Using a relational database for scalable XML search
XML is a flexible and powerful tool that enables information and security sharing in heterogeneous environments. Scalable technologies are needed to effectively manage the growing...
Rebecca Cathey, Steven M. Beitzel, Eric C. Jensen,...
SIGCOMM
2009
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
ROAR: increasing the flexibility and performance of distributed search
To search the web quickly, search engines partition the web index over many machines, and consult every partition when answering a query. To increase throughput, replicas are adde...
Costin Raiciu, Felipe Huici, Mark Handley, David S...
SIGMOD
2011
ACM
176views Database» more  SIGMOD 2011»
12 years 10 months ago
Sharing work in keyword search over databases
An important means of allowing non-expert end-users to pose ad hoc queries — whether over single databases or data integration systems — is through keyword search. Given a set...
Marie Jacob, Zachary G. Ives