Peers in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems use conjunctive queries as a way of controlling query cost in the absence of information about the behavior of other peers. Conjunctive ...
The complexity of deploying high-performance spatial structures in transactional DBMS environments has motivated researchers to experiment with the idea of reusing the effort inve...
Abstract. This paper explores factors associated with effective external representation (ER) use. We describe an information-processing approach to the assessment of ER knowledge. ...
We propose a model that leverages the millions of clicks received by web search engines to predict document relevance. This allows the comparison of ranking functions when clicks ...
Scaling up web applications requires distribution of load across multiple application servers and across multiple database servers. Distributing load across multiple application se...