Web search engines are built from components capable of processing large amounts of user queries per second in a distributed way. Among them, the index service computes the topk documents that best match each incoming query ...

Ensembling machine-learned models has shown to be a useful technique for improving the effectiveness of tasks such as classification, ad-hoc retrieval, and recommendation. Stacking, for instance, learns to weight and combine ...

Web search engines are expensive to maintain, expensive to operate, and hard to design. Modern search engines rely on clusters of server machines for query processing. Thus, the performance of parallel query processing in ...

Image and multimedia retrieval has established as a prominent task in an increasingly digital and visual world. Mainly supported by decades of development on hand-crafted features and the success of deep learning techniques, ...

Wimpy virtual instances equipped with small numbers of cores and RAM are popular public and private cloud offerings because of their low cost for hosting applications. The challenge is how to run latency-sensitive applications ...

The Immune Epitope Database and Analysis Resource (IEDB) contains information related to antibodies and T cells across an expansive scope of research fields (infectious diseases, allergy, autoimmunity, and transplantation). ...