We present an approach to building libraries of tasks in complex action languages such as Golog, for query answering. Our formalization is based on a situation calculus framework t...
The performance of parallel query processing in a cluster of index servers is crucial for modern web search systems. In such a scenario, the response time basically depends on the...
Claudine Santos Badue, Ricardo A. Baeza-Yates, Ber...
Increasing application demands are pushing database management systems (DBMSs) towards providing adequate and efficient support for content-based retrieval over multimedia objects...
As more and more query processing work can be done in main memory, memory access is becoming a significant cost component of database operations. Recent database research has show...
The TREC 2003 web track consisted of both a non-interactive stream and an interactive stream. Both streams worked with the .GOV test collection. The non-interactive stream continu...
Nick Craswell, David Hawking, Ross Wilkinson, Ming...