Browsing Posts published in April, 2010

After presenting our Liquid Query paper at WWW 2010, we took some time to analyze the overall scientific and technical program, spotting some papers that relates a lot to some of the research problems addressed by SeCo.

Liquid Query: Multi-domain Exploratory Search on the Web The slides refer to our presentation at WWW 2010. Have a look to our even planner demo! The abstract of the paper and a demonstration video follow.

Load balancing is a technique aiming at distributing workload in a computer network, in order to optimally utilize resources, avoid overload and maximize throughput. Computer clusters rely on load balancing to distribute workload across network links, CPUs, web servers, etc. A server farm is a common application of load balancing, where multiple servers seamlessly provide a single Internet [...]

This posts presents another initiative to open-up data sources by mean of standard Web technologies such as HTTP, Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) and JSON: the Open Data Protocol (OData). OData (which seems to be mainly supported by Microsoft) is a Web protocol for querying and updating data. OData can be used to give access to a variety of sources, such [...]

Georgi Kobilarov, the CEO of a German, Linked Data startup called Uberblic, issued an open challenge on his blog, asking: if we had a Web of Data, what would you build? Here’s Georgi idea: Here’s my idea: If we had a Web of Data, I would built an application for painless travel planning. It would [...]

Subversion – also known as SVN – is a source version control system created by CollabNet Inc. and currently part of Apache Software Fundation. Today SVN is preferred to CVS since it supports many advanced features, like atomic commits (either all the changes – even spanning multiple files – are registered or the state of [...]

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