Abstract. This paper proposes an expert peering system for information exchange. Our objective is to develop a real-time search engine for an online community where users can ask e...
Background: Existing biological databases support a variety of queries such as keyword or definition search. However, they do not provide any measure of relevance for the instance...
Abstract. We investigate image retrieval using interest point descriptors. New geographic information systems such as Google Earth and Microsoft Virtual Earth are providing increas...
We describe a load-balancing mechanism for assigning elements to servers in a distributed data structure that supports range queries. The mechanism ensures both load-balancing wit...
James Aspnes, Jonathan Kirsch, Arvind Krishnamurth...
Abstract. This paper describes CAP7, a system for searching and browsing in distributed document (metadata) collections. The system architecture is similar to Harvest, comprising g...