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SUMMARY:7th Workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems for Information Retrieval (LSDS-IR'09)
DTSTART:20090723T070000Z
DTEND:20090723T150000Z
DESCRIPTION:The Web is continuously growing. Currently\, there are mor
 e than 20 billions pages (some sources suggest 100 billions)\, compare
 d to less than 1 billion documents in 1998. Traditionally\, Web-scale 
 search engines employ large and highly replicated systems\, operating 
 on computer clusters in one or few data centers. Coping with the incre
 asing number of user requests and indexable pages requires adding more
  resources. However\, data centers cannot grow indefinitely. Scalabili
 ty problems in information retrieval have to be addressed in the near 
 future\, and new distributed applications are likely to drive the way 
 in which people use the Web. Distributed IR is the point in which thes
 e two directions converge. This workshop will provide space for resear
 chers to discuss these problems and to define new directions for the w
 ork on distributed information retrieval.
LOCATION:Boston\, Massachusetts\, USA
CATEGORIES:Workshop
CONTACT:Gleb Skobeltsyn\, gleb.skobeltsyn@epfl.ch
URL:http://lsdsir09.isti.cnr.it/
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