Publish-subscribe-query information broker middleware offers great promise to users of pervasive computing systems requiring access to information. However, users of publish-subscr...
Proximity searching consists in retrieving from a database, objects that are close to a query. For this type of searching problem, the most general model is the metric space, where...
Measuring the efficacy of ITS can be hard because there are many confounding factors: short, well-isolated studies suffer from insufficient interaction with the system, while longe...
Brent Martin, Kenneth R. Koedinger, Antonija Mitro...
While hardware caches are generally effective at improving application performance, they greatly complicate performance prediction. Slight changes in memory layout or data access p...
—In this paper, we uncover the Bloom paradox in Bloom filters: sometimes, it is better to disregard the query results of Bloom filters, and in fact not to even query them, thus...