Online-Analytical Processing (OLAP) has been a field of competing technologies for the past ten years. One of the still unsolved challenges of OLAP is how to provide quick respons...
Jens Dittrich, Lukas Blunschi, Marcos Antonio Vaz ...
Abstract-- Broadcast-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks, including flat (e.g., Gnutella) and two-layer super-peer implementations (e.g., Kazaa), are extremely popular nowadays due t...
Spatial Information Grid (SIG) is a project of applying grid technology to share and integrate spatial data resources, information processing resources, equipment resources, and kn...
Chunhui Yang, Deke Guo, Yan Ren, Xueshan Luo, Jinf...
When search engine users have trouble finding information, they may become frustrated, possibly resulting in a bad experience (even if they are ultimately successful). In a user ...
A major problem of current Web search is that search queries are usually short and ambiguous, and thus are insufficient for specifying the precise user needs. To alleviate this pro...