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CIKM
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Approximating the top-m passages in a parallel question answering system
We examine the problem of retrieving the top-m ranked items from a large collection, randomly distributed across an n-node system. In order to retrieve the top m overall, we must ...
Charles L. A. Clarke, Egidio L. Terra
ISPA
2004
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
Location-Dependent Query Results Retrieval in a Multi-cell Wireless Environment
The demand of information services is popular in recent years. However, the requested of correct answer in a mobile environment needs to have more attentions. This is due to the sc...
James Jayaputera, David Taniar
ICPP
2007
IEEE
14 years 2 months ago
Difficulty-aware Hybrid Search in Peer-to-Peer Networks
—By combining an unstructured protocol with a DHT-based global index, hybrid peer-to-peer (P2P) improves search efficiency in terms of query recall and response time. The major c...
Hanhua Chen, Hai Jin, Yunhao Liu, Lionel M. Ni
ESCIENCE
2007
IEEE
13 years 11 months ago
A Scalable and Efficient Prefix-Based Lookup Mechanism for Large-Scale Grids
Data sources, storage, computing resources and services are entities on Grids that require mechanisms for publication and lookup. A discovery service relies on efficient lookup to...
Philip Chan, David Abramson
ICDE
2006
IEEE
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14 years 9 months ago
Query Co-Processing on Commodity Hardware
The rapid increase in the data volumes for the past few decades has intensified the need for high processing power for database and data mining applications. Researchers have acti...
Anastassia Ailamaki, Naga K. Govindaraju, Dinesh M...