A distributed search system consists of a large number of autonomous search servers logically connected in a peerto-peer network. Each search server maintains a local index of a c...
A Data Warehouse DW is a database that collects and stores data from multiple remote and heterogeneous information sources. When a query is posed, it is evaluated locally, without...
The widespread distribution and availability of smallscale sensors, actuators, and embedded processors is transforming the physical world into a computing platform. One such examp...
Cache locality optimization is an efficient way for reducing the idle time of modern processors in waiting for needed data. This kind of optimization can be achieved either on the...
Current web search engines focus on searching only the most recent snapshot of the web. In some cases, however, it would be desirable to search over collections that include many ...