A major cost in executing queries in a distributed database system is the data transfer cost incurred in transferring relations (fragments) accessed by a query from different site...
In this paper we describe a distributed architecture consisting of a combination of scripting tools that interact with each other in order to help to find and query decentralized ...
Uldis Bojars, Alexandre Passant, Frederick Giasson...
With the massive advance of electronic document repositories, usable interfaces to these repositories gain importance. While sophisticated information retrieval techniques provide...
Ranked queries are used to locate relevant documents in text databases. In a ranked query a list of terms is specified, then the documents that most closely match the query are re...
The combination of evidence for Information Retrieval has been studied extensively in order to increase effectiveness. In this paper, we study the selective application of differe...