The increase number of mobile users in wireless environment affects query access time substantially. To minimise the query access time, one possible way is to employ data broadcast...
Agustinus Borgy Waluyo, Bala Srinivasan, David Tan...
Query expansion of named entities can be employed in order to increase the retrieval effectiveness. A peculiarity of named entities compared to other vocabulary terms is that they...
Informed prefetching and caching based on application disclosure of future I/O accesses (hints) can dramatically reduce the execution time of I/O-intensive applications. A recent ...
Andrew Tomkins, R. Hugo Patterson, Garth A. Gibson
The sounds that make up spoken words are heard in a series and must be mapped rapidly onto words in memory because their elements, unlike those of visual words, cannot simultaneou...
James S. Magnuson, James A. Dixon, Michael K. Tane...
Today’s search engines are increasingly required to broaden their capabilities beyond free-text search. More complex features, such as supporting range constraints over numeric ...
Marcus Fontoura, Ronny Lempel, Runping Qi, Jason Y...