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MOBIDE
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Consistency mechanisms for a distributed lookup service supporting mobile applications
This paper presents a general-purpose distributed lookup service, denoted Passive Distributed Indexing (PDI). PDI stores entries in form of (key, value) pairs in index caches loca...
Christoph Lindemann, Oliver P. Waldhorst
IPM
2007
137views more  IPM 2007»
13 years 9 months ago
Analyzing imbalance among homogeneous index servers in a web search system
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
SAMT
2007
Springer
171views Multimedia» more  SAMT 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
SAPIR: Scalable and Distributed Image Searching
—In this paper we present a scalable and distributed system for image retrieval based on visual features and annotated text. This system is the core of the SAPIR project. Its arc...
Fabrizio Falchi, Mouna Kacimi, Yosi Mass, Fausto R...
ICDE
2005
IEEE
120views Database» more  ICDE 2005»
14 years 10 months ago
Progressive Distributed Top k Retrieval in Peer-to-Peer Networks
Query processing in traditional information management systems has moved from an exact match model to more flexible paradigms allowing cooperative retrieval by aggregating the dat...
Wolf-Tilo Balke, Wolfgang Nejdl, Wolf Siberski, Uw...
VLDB
1995
ACM
96views Database» more  VLDB 1995»
14 years 16 days ago
The Fittest Survives: An Adaptive Approach to Query Optimization
Traditionally, optimizers are “programmed” to optimize queries following a set of buildin procedures. However, optimizers should be robust to its changing environment to gener...
Hongjun Lu, Kian-Lee Tan, Son Dao