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WWW
2009
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
RuralCafe: web search in the rural developing world
The majority of people in rural developing regions do not have access to the World Wide Web. Traditional network connectivity technologies have proven to be prohibitively expensiv...
Jay Chen, Lakshminarayanan Subramanian, Jinyang Li
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 7 months ago
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Da...
INFOCOM
2006
IEEE
14 years 1 months ago
AnySee: Peer-to-Peer Live Streaming
— Efficient and scalable live-streaming overlay construction has become a hot topic recently. In order to improve the performance metrics, such as startup delay, source-to-end de...
Xiaofei Liao, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni, D...
CIKM
2010
Springer
13 years 6 months ago
Improved index compression techniques for versioned document collections
Current Information Retrieval systems use inverted index structures for efficient query processing. Due to the extremely large size of many data sets, these index structures are u...
Jinru He, Junyuan Zeng, Torsten Suel
DAMON
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Cache-conscious buffering for database operators with state
Database processes must be cache-efficient to effectively utilize modern hardware. In this paper, we analyze the importance of temporal locality and the resultant cache behavior ...
John Cieslewicz, William Mee, Kenneth A. Ross