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2010
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Sync kit: a persistent client-side database caching toolkit for data intensive websites
We introduce a client-server toolkit called Sync Kit that demonstrates how client-side database storage can improve the performance of data intensive websites. Sync Kit is designe...
Edward Benson, Adam Marcus 0002, David R. Karger, ...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Facetedpedia: dynamic generation of query-dependent faceted interfaces for wikipedia
We propose Facetedpedia, a faceted retrieval system for information discovery and exploration in Wikipedia. Given the set of Wikipedia articles resulting from a keyword query, Fac...
Chengkai Li, Ning Yan, Senjuti Basu Roy, Lekhendro...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Web-scale k-means clustering
We present two modifications to the popular k-means clustering algorithm to address the extreme requirements for latency, scalability, and sparsity encountered in user-facing web...
D. Sculley
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Autonomous resource provisioning for multi-service web applications
Dynamic resource provisioning aims at maintaining the endto-end response time of a web application within a predefined SLA. Although the topic has been well studied for monolithi...
Dejun Jiang, Guillaume Pierre, Chi-Hung Chi
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Caching search engine results over incremental indices
Roi Blanco, Edward Bortnikov, Flavio Junqueira, Ro...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Expressive auctions for externalities in online advertising
When online ads are shown together, they compete for user attention and conversions, imposing negative externalities on each other. While the competition for user attention in spo...
Arpita Ghosh, Amin Sayedi
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Automated performance assessment for service-oriented middleware: a case study on BPEL engines
Middleware for Web service compositions, such as BPEL engines, provides the execution environment for services as well as additional functionalities, such as monitoring and self-t...
Domenico Bianculli, Walter Binder, Mauro Luigi Dra...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Scalable discovery of contradictions on the web
Our study addresses the problem of large-scale contradiction detection and management, from data extracted from the Web. We describe the first systematic solution to the problem,...
Mikalai Tsytsarau, Themis Palpanas, Kerstin Deneck...
WWW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
Mind the data skew: distributed inferencing by speeddating in elastic regions
Semantic Web data exhibits very skewed frequency distributions among terms. Efficient large-scale distributed reasoning methods should maintain load-balance in the face of such hi...
Spyros Kotoulas, Eyal Oren, Frank van Harmelen