Histograms are used to summarize the contents of relations into a number of buckets for the estimation of query result sizes. Several techniques (e.g., MaxDiff and V-Optimal) have ...
Francesco Buccafurri, Gianluca Lax, Domenico SaccÃ...
Grid is a promising e-Science infrastructure that promotes and facilitates the sharing and collaboration in the use of distributed heterogeneous resources through Virtual Organiza...
Peisheng Zhao, Aijun Chen, Yang Liu, Liping Di, We...
Search engines are the primary gateways of information access on the Web today. Behind the scenes, search engines crawl the Web to populate a local indexed repository of Web pages...
In this paper, we describe the Travelers in the Middle East Archive (TIMEA), a digital archive focused on Western explorations in the Middle East between the 18th and early 20th c...
Lisa M. Spiro, Marie Wise, Geneva L. Henry, Chuck ...
Abstract. The SPIRIT search engine provides a test bed for the development of web search technology that is specialised for access to geographical information. Major components inc...
Christopher B. Jones, Alia I. Abdelmoty, David Fin...