With the success of libre (free, open source) software, a new type of software compilation has become increasingly common. Such compilations, often referred to as ‘distributions...
This paper proposes a general framework for searching large distributed repositories. Examples of such repositories include sites with music/video content, distributed digital lib...
In a large-scale information system such as a digital library or the web, a set of distributed caches can improve their effectiveness by coordinating their data placement decisions...
As part of the Illinois Digital Library Initiative (DLI) project we developed “scalable semantics” technologies. These statistical techniques enabled us to index large collect...
Yi-Ming Chung, Qin He, Kevin Powell, Bruce R. Scha...
We describe here a method for automatically identifying word sense variation in a dated collection of historical books in a large digital library. By leveraging a small set of kno...