SUSHI: Scoring scaled samples for server selection

Proceedings - 32nd Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, SIGIR 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 419-426

  Thomas, Paul ^a   Shokouhi, Milad ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; HIGH PRECISION; NETWORK TRAFFIC; SERVER SELECTION; SERVER SELECTION ALGORITHM; TRAINING DATA;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SERVICES; INTERNET;

SERVERS;

EID: 72449180895     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1571941.1572014     Document Type: Conference Paper

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