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1998
ACM
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A Cost Model for Similarity Queries in Metric Spaces
We consider the problem of estimating CPU (distance computations) and I/O costs for processing range and k-nearest neighbors queries over metric spaces. Unlike the specific case ...
Paolo Ciaccia, Marco Patella, Pavel Zezula
HPCC
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Optimizing Performance of Automatic Training Phase for Application Performance Prediction in the Grid
Abstract. Automatic execution time prediction of the Grid applications plays a critical role in making the pervasive Grid more reliable and predictable. However, automatic executio...
Farrukh Nadeem, Radu Prodan, Thomas Fahringer
COLING
2002
13 years 7 months ago
Searching the Web by Voice
Spoken queries are a natural medium for searching the Web in settings where typing on a keyboard is not practical. This paper describes a speech interface to the Google search eng...
Alexander Franz, Brian Milch
WWW
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
Divide, Compress and Conquer: Querying XML via Partitioned Path-Based Compressed Data Blocks
We propose a novel Partition Path-Based (PPB) grouping strategy to store compressed XML data in a stream of blocks. In addition, we employ a minimal indexing scheme called Block S...
Wilfred Ng, Ho Lam Lau, Aoying Zhou
SIGIR
2008
ACM
13 years 7 months ago
A unified and discriminative model for query refinement
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
Jiafeng Guo, Gu Xu, Hang Li, Xueqi Cheng