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SIGMOD
2012
ACM
11 years 11 months ago
2012
ACM
Query substitution is an important problem in information retrieval. Much work focuses on how to find substitutes for any given query. In this paper, we study how to efficiently ...
JNCA
2011
12 years 12 months ago
2011
In large-scale distributed virtual environments (DVEs), the NP-hard zone mapping problem concerns how to assign distinct zones of the virtual world to a number of distributed serv...
ICDE
2009
IEEE
14 years 10 months ago
2009
IEEE
Abstract-- In sensor environments and moving robot applications, the position of an object is often known imprecisely because of measurement error and/or movement of the object. In...
SIGIR
2003
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
2003
ACM
We present SETS, an architecture for efficient search in peer-to-peer networks, building upon ideas drawn from machine learning and social network theory. The key idea is to arran...
SAC
2009
ACM
14 years 3 months ago
2009
ACM
Effective peer selection for intelligent query routing is a challenge in collaborative peer-based Web search systems, especially unstructured networks that do not have any central...