Performance issues in distributed shared-nothing information-retrieval systems

Information Processing and Management

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 647-665

  Tomasic, Anthony ^a   Garcia Molina, Hector ^b  

^a INRIA ROCQUENCOURT   (France)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTRIBUTED COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DISTRIBUTED DATABASE SYSTEMS;

SHARED NOTHING INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS; TRACE DRIVEN SIMULATION;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0030290474     PISSN: 03064573     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4573(96)00019-2     Document Type: Article

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