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EUROPAR
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
A Search Engine Accepting On-Line Updates
We describe and evaluate the performance of a parallel search engine that is able to cope efficiently with concurrent read/write operations. Read operations come in the usual form ...
Mauricio Marín, Carolina Bonacic, Veronica ...
ECTEL
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Role Based Access Control for the Interaction with Search Engines
Search engine-based features are a basic interaction mean for users to find information inside a Web-based Learning Management Systems (LMS); nonetheless, traditional solutions la...
Alessandro Bozzon, Tereza Iofciu, Wolfgang Nejdl, ...
CIVR
2007
Springer
128views Image Analysis» more  CIVR 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
3D-Model search engine from photos
In this paper, we present the FOX-MIIRE 3D-Model Search Engine. Our search engine is based on Adaptive Views Vlustering (AVC) algorithm [4]. The AVC method uses statistical model ...
Tarik Filali Ansary, Jean-Philippe Vandeborre, Moh...
SSDBM
2007
IEEE
165views Database» more  SSDBM 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
Processing Spatial-Keyword (SK) Queries in Geographic Information Retrieval (GIR) Systems
Location-based information contained in publicly available GIS databases is invaluable for many applications such as disaster response, national infrastructure protection, crime a...
Ramaswamy Hariharan, Bijit Hore, Chen Li, Sharad M...
IRI
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Acronym-Expansion Recognition and Ranking on the Web
The paper presents a study on large-scale automatic extraction of acronyms and associated expansions from Web data and from the user interactions with this data through Web search...
Alpa Jain, Silviu Cucerzan, Saliha Azzam
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Optimized Inverted List Assignment in Distributed Search Engine Architectures
We study efficient query processing in distributed web search engines with global index organization. The main performance bottleneck in this case is due to the large amount of i...
Jiangong Zhang, Torsten Suel
IEEECIT
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Worrisome Rich-Get-Richer? Not the True Story!
Search engines have become efficient assistants for people to access information on the Web. Some researchers argue that the prevalence of search engines is setting a tough journ...
Mingda Wu, Qiancheng Jiang, Yan Zhang
HICSS
2007
IEEE
79views Biometrics» more  HICSS 2007»
14 years 6 months ago
User-Based Evaluations of Search Engines: Hygiene Factors and Motivation Factors
In cyberspace, the emergence and increasing importance of search engine prompts numerous evaluation studies in regard to its effectiveness. Based on a user-oriented perspective, t...
Ya-Lan Chuang, Ling-Ling Wu
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Load Balancing Distributed Inverted Files: Query Ranking
Search engines use inverted files as index data structures to speed up the solution of user queries. The index is distributed on a set of processors forming a cluster of computer...
Carlos Gomez-Pantoja, Mauricio Marín
PDP
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Bulk-Synchronous On-Line Crawling on Clusters of Computers
This paper describes the design of a crawler devised to perform the periodic retrieval of Web documents for a search engine able to accept on-line updates in a concurrent manner. ...
Mauricio Marín, Carolina Bonacic