The TREC 2004 Terabyte Track evaluated information retrieval in largescale text collections, using a set of 25 million documents (426 GB). This paper gives an overview of our expe...
The rapid revolution in microprocessor chip architecture due to multicore technology is presenting unprecedented challenges to the application developers as well as system softwar...
Our research explores the possibilities for factoring culture into user models, working towards cultural adaptivity in the semantic web. The aim is to represent the user’s positi...
Automated software customization is drawing increasing attention as a means to help users deal with the scope, complexity, potential intrusiveness, and ever-changing nature of mod...
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...