The document discusses query processing and merging of posting lists. It explains that for a query with terms T2 AND T3:
(1) Pointers are maintained for the posting lists of T2 and T3 and walked through simultaneously.
(2) At each step, the DocIDs are compared and the pointer with the smaller DocID is advanced. If the DocIDs are the same, they are added to the merge list.
(3) Merging posting lists takes linear time based on the total number of postings entries. Skip pointers can be used to skip postings that will not be in the search results, improving efficiency.
An inverted file indexes a text collection to speed up searching. It contains a vocabulary of distinct words and occurrences lists with information on where each word appears. For each term in the vocabulary, it stores a list of pointers to occurrences called an inverted list. Coarser granularity indexes use less storage but require more processing, while word-level indexes enable proximity searches but use more space. The document describes how inverted files are structured and constructed from text and discusses techniques like block addressing that reduce their space requirements.
Ppt evaluation of information retrieval systemsilambu111
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Evaluation is defined as systematically determining a subject's merit using a set of standards. The main purposes of evaluation are to compare the performance of different systems, assess how well systems meet their goals, and identify ways to improve effectiveness. Evaluation can consider managerial or user viewpoints. Common criteria include recall, precision, fallout, generality, effectiveness, efficiency, usability, satisfaction, and cost. Recall measures the proportion of relevant documents retrieved while precision measures the proportion of retrieved documents that are relevant. Evaluation helps identify ways to improve information retrieval system performance.
This document defines SGML and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, which is a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document. It allows authors to markup documents with structural, presentational, and semantic information. Some advantages of SGML include its flexibility, separation of content from appearance, and support of different media types. However, SGML also has disadvantages such as complex DTDs, linking, and software development.
The document discusses various information retrieval models, including:
1) Classic models like Boolean and vector space models that use index terms to represent documents and queries.
2) Probabilistic models that view IR as estimating the probability of relevance between documents and queries.
3) Structured models that incorporate document structure, including models based on non-overlapping text regions and hierarchical document structure.
4) Browsing models like flat, structure-guided, and hypertext models for navigating document collections.
The document discusses the vector space model for representing text documents and queries in information retrieval systems. It describes how documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights, with each term being assigned a weight based on its frequency in the document or query. The vector space model allows documents and queries to be compared by calculating the similarity between their vector representations. Terms that are more frequent in a document and less frequent overall are given higher weights through techniques like TF-IDF weighting. This vector representation enables efficient retrieval of documents ranked by similarity to the query.
This document discusses evaluation methods for information retrieval systems. It begins by outlining different types of evaluation, including retrieval effectiveness, efficiency, and user-based evaluation. It then focuses on retrieval effectiveness, describing commonly used measures like precision, recall, and discounted cumulative gain. It discusses how these measures are calculated and their limitations. The document also introduces other evaluation metrics like R-precision, average precision, and normalized discounted cumulative gain that provide single value assessments of system performance.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
TF-IDF, short for Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency, is a text mining technique, that gives a numeric statistic as to how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus. This is a technique used to categorize documents according to certain words and their importance to the document
An inverted file indexes a text collection to speed up searching. It contains a vocabulary of distinct words and occurrences lists with information on where each word appears. For each term in the vocabulary, it stores a list of pointers to occurrences called an inverted list. Coarser granularity indexes use less storage but require more processing, while word-level indexes enable proximity searches but use more space. The document describes how inverted files are structured and constructed from text and discusses techniques like block addressing that reduce their space requirements.
Ppt evaluation of information retrieval systemsilambu111
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Evaluation is defined as systematically determining a subject's merit using a set of standards. The main purposes of evaluation are to compare the performance of different systems, assess how well systems meet their goals, and identify ways to improve effectiveness. Evaluation can consider managerial or user viewpoints. Common criteria include recall, precision, fallout, generality, effectiveness, efficiency, usability, satisfaction, and cost. Recall measures the proportion of relevant documents retrieved while precision measures the proportion of retrieved documents that are relevant. Evaluation helps identify ways to improve information retrieval system performance.
This document defines SGML and discusses its advantages and disadvantages. SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language, which is a system for organizing and tagging elements of a document. It allows authors to markup documents with structural, presentational, and semantic information. Some advantages of SGML include its flexibility, separation of content from appearance, and support of different media types. However, SGML also has disadvantages such as complex DTDs, linking, and software development.
The document discusses various information retrieval models, including:
1) Classic models like Boolean and vector space models that use index terms to represent documents and queries.
2) Probabilistic models that view IR as estimating the probability of relevance between documents and queries.
3) Structured models that incorporate document structure, including models based on non-overlapping text regions and hierarchical document structure.
4) Browsing models like flat, structure-guided, and hypertext models for navigating document collections.
The document discusses the vector space model for representing text documents and queries in information retrieval systems. It describes how documents and queries are represented as vectors of term weights, with each term being assigned a weight based on its frequency in the document or query. The vector space model allows documents and queries to be compared by calculating the similarity between their vector representations. Terms that are more frequent in a document and less frequent overall are given higher weights through techniques like TF-IDF weighting. This vector representation enables efficient retrieval of documents ranked by similarity to the query.
This document discusses evaluation methods for information retrieval systems. It begins by outlining different types of evaluation, including retrieval effectiveness, efficiency, and user-based evaluation. It then focuses on retrieval effectiveness, describing commonly used measures like precision, recall, and discounted cumulative gain. It discusses how these measures are calculated and their limitations. The document also introduces other evaluation metrics like R-precision, average precision, and normalized discounted cumulative gain that provide single value assessments of system performance.
The document summarizes a technical seminar on web-based information retrieval systems. It discusses information retrieval architecture and approaches, including syntactical, statistical, and semantic methods. It also covers web search analysis techniques like web structure analysis, content analysis, and usage analysis. The document outlines the process of web crawling and types of crawlers. It discusses challenges of web structure, crawling and indexing, and searching. Finally, it concludes that as unstructured online information grows, information retrieval techniques must continue to improve to leverage this data.
TF-IDF, short for Term Frequency - Inverse Document Frequency, is a text mining technique, that gives a numeric statistic as to how important a word is to a document in a collection or corpus. This is a technique used to categorize documents according to certain words and their importance to the document
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document provides an overview of an information retrieval system. It defines an information retrieval system as a system capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information such as text, images, audio, and video. The objectives of an information retrieval system are to minimize the overhead for a user to locate needed information. The document discusses functions like search, browse, indexing, cataloging, and various capabilities to facilitate querying and retrieving relevant information from the system.
The document discusses different theories used in information retrieval systems. It describes cognitive or user-centered theories that model human information behavior and structural or system-centered theories like the vector space model. The vector space model represents documents and queries as vectors of term weights and compares similarities between queries and documents. It was first used in the SMART information retrieval system and involves assigning term vectors and weights to documents based on relevance.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
Automatic indexing is the process of analyzing documents to extract information to be included in an index. This can be done through statistical, natural language, concept-based, or hypertext linkage techniques. Statistical techniques are the most common, identifying words and phrases to index documents. Natural language techniques perform additional parsing of text. Concept indexing correlates words to concepts, while hypertext linkages create connections between documents. The goal of automatic indexing is to preprocess documents to allow for relevant search results by representing concepts in the index.
The document discusses signature files, which are used for document retrieval. A signature file creates a compressed representation or "signature" for each document in a database. These signatures are stored in hash tables to allow easy retrieval of matching documents for user queries. Signatures can represent words using triplets of characters and a hash function, or entire documents through concatenation of word signatures or superimposed coding. Signature files provide a quick link between queries and documents but have lower accuracy than inverted files, which are generally better for information retrieval applications.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
Information retrieval systems use indexes and inverted indexes to quickly search large document collections by mapping terms to their locations. Boolean retrieval uses an inverted index to process Boolean queries by intersecting postings lists to find documents that contain sets of terms. Key aspects of information retrieval systems include precision, recall, and ranking search results by relevance.
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. It describes several evaluation criteria used such as recall, precision, fallout and generality. It also outlines major information retrieval evaluation experiments including Cranfield tests, MEDLARS, SMART and TREC. Evaluation is important to assess how well a system satisfies its objectives, how efficiently it works, and whether it is worthwhile. Different methods are used to evaluate systems from the viewpoints of users and managers.
The document discusses information retrieval models. It describes the Boolean retrieval model, which represents documents and queries as sets of terms combined with Boolean operators. Documents are retrieved if they satisfy the Boolean query, but there is no ranking of results. The Boolean model has limitations including difficulty expressing complex queries, controlling result size, and ranking results. It works best for simple, precise queries when users know exactly what they are searching for.
The document discusses various types of query languages used in information retrieval systems. It describes keyword-based queries, single-word queries, phrase queries, multiple-word queries, Boolean queries, weighted queries, pattern queries, and natural language queries. Different query types allow users to express their information needs in organized ways to retrieve relevant results through combining words and assigning weights or using wildcards.
The Boolean model is a classical information retrieval model based on set theory and Boolean logic. Queries are specified as Boolean expressions to retrieve documents that either contain or do not contain the query terms. All term frequencies are binary and documents are retrieved based on an exact match to the query terms. However, this model has limitations as it does not rank documents and queries are difficult for users to translate into Boolean expressions, often returning too few or too many results.
Term weighting assigns a weight to terms in documents to quantify their importance in describing the document's contents. Weights are higher for terms that occur frequently in a document but rarely in other documents. Term frequency in a document and inverse document frequency are used to calculate TF-IDF weights. Term occurrences may be correlated, so term weights should reflect their correlation. For example, terms like "computer" and "network" often appear together in documents about computer networks.
This chapter introduces the notion of Information Retrieval (IR). it discusses after a survey of classification of various IR systems and major components of an IR system, the notion of Boolean Retrieval model and Invertex Index and extended Boolean are presented.
key word indexing and their types with example Sourav Sarkar
This document defines and discusses different types of keyword indexing systems used for information retrieval, including KWIC (Keyword-In-Context), KWOC (Keyword-Out-Of-Context), and KWAC (Keyword-Augmented-In-Context). It provides examples and explanations of how each system works and the advantages and disadvantages of keyword indexing overall. Some key points covered include that keyword indexing allows fast indexing without controlled vocabularies but can result in low precision searches due to scattered related topics.
Words and sentences are the basic units of text. In this lecture we discuss basics of operations on words and sentences such as tokenization, text normalization, tf-idf, cosine similarity measures, vector space models and word representation
The document discusses information retrieval, which involves obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection. The information retrieval process begins when a user submits a query. The system matches queries to database information, ranks objects based on relevance, and returns top results to the user. The process involves document acquisition and representation, user problem representation as queries, and searching/retrieval through matching and result retrieval.
These slides are based on Distributed Transactions, which is also a type of internet transaction. Distributed Transaction is a database transaction in which two or more servers are involved.
The document discusses four sorting algorithms: selection sort, insertion sort, bubble sort, and shellsort. It provides explanations of how each algorithm works, examples of pseudocode and walking through examples, and analyses of the time and space complexity of each algorithm. Selection sort and insertion sort have quadratic time complexity while bubble sort and shellsort have various improvements but are still generally quadratic.
This document summarizes an introduction to algorithms lecture. It introduces concepts like asymptotic analysis, worst case running times, and examples of sorting algorithms like insertion sort and merge sort. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, while merge sort runs faster in O(n log n) time due to dividing the problem into smaller subproblems and merging sorted lists. The document provides pseudocode and examples of how these algorithms work at a high level.
The document discusses the World Wide Web and information retrieval on the web. It provides background on how the web was developed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 using HTML, HTTP, and URLs. It then discusses some key differences in information retrieval on the web compared to traditional library systems, including the presence of hyperlinks, heterogeneous content, duplication of content, exponential growth in the number of documents, and lack of stability. It also summarizes some challenges in web search including the expanding nature of the web, dynamically generated content, influence of monetary contributions on search results, and search engine spamming.
This document provides an overview of an information retrieval system. It defines an information retrieval system as a system capable of storing, retrieving, and maintaining information such as text, images, audio, and video. The objectives of an information retrieval system are to minimize the overhead for a user to locate needed information. The document discusses functions like search, browse, indexing, cataloging, and various capabilities to facilitate querying and retrieving relevant information from the system.
The document discusses different theories used in information retrieval systems. It describes cognitive or user-centered theories that model human information behavior and structural or system-centered theories like the vector space model. The vector space model represents documents and queries as vectors of term weights and compares similarities between queries and documents. It was first used in the SMART information retrieval system and involves assigning term vectors and weights to documents based on relevance.
This document provides an overview of information retrieval models. It begins with definitions of information retrieval and how it differs from data retrieval. It then discusses the retrieval process and logical representations of documents. A taxonomy of IR models is presented including classic, structured, and browsing models. Boolean, vector, and probabilistic models are explained as examples of classic models. The document concludes with descriptions of ad-hoc retrieval and filtering tasks and formal characteristics of IR models.
Automatic indexing is the process of analyzing documents to extract information to be included in an index. This can be done through statistical, natural language, concept-based, or hypertext linkage techniques. Statistical techniques are the most common, identifying words and phrases to index documents. Natural language techniques perform additional parsing of text. Concept indexing correlates words to concepts, while hypertext linkages create connections between documents. The goal of automatic indexing is to preprocess documents to allow for relevant search results by representing concepts in the index.
The document discusses signature files, which are used for document retrieval. A signature file creates a compressed representation or "signature" for each document in a database. These signatures are stored in hash tables to allow easy retrieval of matching documents for user queries. Signatures can represent words using triplets of characters and a hash function, or entire documents through concatenation of word signatures or superimposed coding. Signature files provide a quick link between queries and documents but have lower accuracy than inverted files, which are generally better for information retrieval applications.
Probabilistic information retrieval models & systemsSelman Bozkır
The document discusses probabilistic information retrieval and Bayesian approaches. It introduces concepts like conditional probability, Bayes' theorem, and the probability ranking principle. It explains how probabilistic models estimate the probability of relevance between a document and query by representing them as term sets and making probabilistic assumptions. The goal is to rank documents by the probability of relevance to present the most likely relevant documents first.
Information retrieval systems use indexes and inverted indexes to quickly search large document collections by mapping terms to their locations. Boolean retrieval uses an inverted index to process Boolean queries by intersecting postings lists to find documents that contain sets of terms. Key aspects of information retrieval systems include precision, recall, and ranking search results by relevance.
The document discusses the evaluation of information retrieval systems. It describes several evaluation criteria used such as recall, precision, fallout and generality. It also outlines major information retrieval evaluation experiments including Cranfield tests, MEDLARS, SMART and TREC. Evaluation is important to assess how well a system satisfies its objectives, how efficiently it works, and whether it is worthwhile. Different methods are used to evaluate systems from the viewpoints of users and managers.
The document discusses information retrieval models. It describes the Boolean retrieval model, which represents documents and queries as sets of terms combined with Boolean operators. Documents are retrieved if they satisfy the Boolean query, but there is no ranking of results. The Boolean model has limitations including difficulty expressing complex queries, controlling result size, and ranking results. It works best for simple, precise queries when users know exactly what they are searching for.
The document discusses various types of query languages used in information retrieval systems. It describes keyword-based queries, single-word queries, phrase queries, multiple-word queries, Boolean queries, weighted queries, pattern queries, and natural language queries. Different query types allow users to express their information needs in organized ways to retrieve relevant results through combining words and assigning weights or using wildcards.
The Boolean model is a classical information retrieval model based on set theory and Boolean logic. Queries are specified as Boolean expressions to retrieve documents that either contain or do not contain the query terms. All term frequencies are binary and documents are retrieved based on an exact match to the query terms. However, this model has limitations as it does not rank documents and queries are difficult for users to translate into Boolean expressions, often returning too few or too many results.
Term weighting assigns a weight to terms in documents to quantify their importance in describing the document's contents. Weights are higher for terms that occur frequently in a document but rarely in other documents. Term frequency in a document and inverse document frequency are used to calculate TF-IDF weights. Term occurrences may be correlated, so term weights should reflect their correlation. For example, terms like "computer" and "network" often appear together in documents about computer networks.
This chapter introduces the notion of Information Retrieval (IR). it discusses after a survey of classification of various IR systems and major components of an IR system, the notion of Boolean Retrieval model and Invertex Index and extended Boolean are presented.
key word indexing and their types with example Sourav Sarkar
This document defines and discusses different types of keyword indexing systems used for information retrieval, including KWIC (Keyword-In-Context), KWOC (Keyword-Out-Of-Context), and KWAC (Keyword-Augmented-In-Context). It provides examples and explanations of how each system works and the advantages and disadvantages of keyword indexing overall. Some key points covered include that keyword indexing allows fast indexing without controlled vocabularies but can result in low precision searches due to scattered related topics.
Words and sentences are the basic units of text. In this lecture we discuss basics of operations on words and sentences such as tokenization, text normalization, tf-idf, cosine similarity measures, vector space models and word representation
The document discusses information retrieval, which involves obtaining information resources relevant to an information need from a collection. The information retrieval process begins when a user submits a query. The system matches queries to database information, ranks objects based on relevance, and returns top results to the user. The process involves document acquisition and representation, user problem representation as queries, and searching/retrieval through matching and result retrieval.
These slides are based on Distributed Transactions, which is also a type of internet transaction. Distributed Transaction is a database transaction in which two or more servers are involved.
The document discusses four sorting algorithms: selection sort, insertion sort, bubble sort, and shellsort. It provides explanations of how each algorithm works, examples of pseudocode and walking through examples, and analyses of the time and space complexity of each algorithm. Selection sort and insertion sort have quadratic time complexity while bubble sort and shellsort have various improvements but are still generally quadratic.
This document summarizes an introduction to algorithms lecture. It introduces concepts like asymptotic analysis, worst case running times, and examples of sorting algorithms like insertion sort and merge sort. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, while merge sort runs faster in O(n log n) time due to dividing the problem into smaller subproblems and merging sorted lists. The document provides pseudocode and examples of how these algorithms work at a high level.
This document summarizes an introduction to algorithms lecture. It introduces concepts like asymptotic analysis, worst case running times, and examples of sorting algorithms like insertion sort and merge sort. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, while merge sort runs faster in O(n log n) time due to dividing the problem into smaller subproblems and merging sorted lists. The document provides pseudocode and examples of how these algorithms work at a high level.
Welcome to Introduction to Algorithms, Spring 2004jeronimored
This document summarizes an introduction to algorithms lecture. It introduces concepts like asymptotic analysis, worst case running times, and examples of sorting algorithms like insertion sort and merge sort. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, while merge sort runs faster in O(nlogn) time due to dividing the problem into smaller subproblems and merging sorted lists. The document provides pseudocode and examples of how these algorithms work at a high level.
This document provides an overview of an introduction to algorithms course. It discusses insertion sort and merge sort algorithms. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, making it inefficient for large data sets. Merge sort runs in O(n log n) time, making it faster than insertion sort for most data sets. The document provides pseudocode and examples of how insertion sort and merge sort work, and uses recurrence relations and recursion trees to analyze their asymptotic runtime performances.
The document discusses algorithms analysis and sorting algorithms. It introduces insertion sort and merge sort, and analyzes their time complexities. Insertion sort runs in O(n^2) time in the worst case, while merge sort runs in O(n log n) time in the worst case, which grows more slowly. Therefore, asymptotically merge sort performs better than insertion sort for large data sets. The document also covers asymptotic analysis, recurrences, and using recursion trees to solve recurrences.
This document introduces an algorithms course, covering topics like:
- Sorting algorithms like insertion sort and merge sort
- Analyzing algorithms to determine asymptotic running time using techniques like recursion trees
- Merge sort runs in O(n log n) time, making it asymptotically faster than insertion sort which is O(n2), though insertion sort may be faster for very small inputs.
The document discusses two sorting algorithms: insertion sort and shellsort. Insertion sort works by repeatedly building a sorted subset by taking elements from the unsorted set and inserting them into the sorted place. Shellsort improves on insertion sort by comparing elements farther apart. It works by making multiple passes with smaller increments to shift elements into place until adjacent elements are sorted. Both algorithms have quadratic runtime but insertion sort is simpler while shellsort is faster for medium sized lists. Examples are provided to demonstrate how each algorithm sorts a sample list.
Pipelining cache can improve performance by reducing cache access time. It breaks the cache access process into multiple stages, allowing subsequent requests to begin the pipeline even if earlier requests are still in progress. For example, a three-stage pipeline would involve: 1) reading the tag and validity bit, 2) determining if there is a hit and starting the data read, and 3) finishing the data read and returning the value to the CPU. Pipelining cache can increase bandwidth but also introduces some complexity from potential branch mispredictions and longer latency between request issue and data use. Overall it aims to optimize the average memory access time.
Pipelining cache can improve performance by reducing cache access time. It breaks the cache access process into multiple stages, allowing subsequent requests to begin the pipeline even if earlier requests are still in progress. For example, a three-stage pipeline would involve: 1) reading the tag and validity bit, 2) determining if there is a hit and starting the data read, and 3) finishing the data read and returning the value to the CPU. Pipelining cache can increase bandwidth but also introduces some complexity from potential branch mispredictions and longer latency between request issue and data use. Overall it aims to optimize the average memory access time.
This document provides an overview and comparison of insertion sort and shellsort sorting algorithms. It describes how insertion sort works by repeatedly inserting elements into a sorted left portion of the array. Shellsort improves on insertion sort by making passes with larger increments to shift values into approximate positions before final sorting. The document discusses the time complexities of both algorithms and provides examples to illustrate how they work.
Data Encryption standard in cryptographyNithyasriA2
The document discusses the Data Encryption Standard (DES) algorithm. It provides an overview of DES, including its history, encryption process, key generation process, and decryption process. It describes how DES uses a Feistel cipher structure with a 64-bit block size and 56-bit key. It also discusses various attacks that have been performed on DES, such as differential cryptanalysis and linear cryptanalysis, and how DES has been shown to be insecure due to increases in computational power allowing brute force attacks. Improved versions of DES using multiple encryptions, such as triple DES, are also summarized to increase the key size and security.
The document discusses sorting algorithms. It defines sorting as arranging a list of records in a certain order based on their keys. Some key points made:
- Sorting is important as it enables efficient searching and other tasks. Common sorting algorithms include selection sort, insertion sort, mergesort, quicksort, and heapsort.
- The complexity of sorting in general is Θ(n log n) but some special cases allow linear time sorting. Internal sorting happens in memory while external sorting handles data too large for memory.
- Applications of sorting include searching, finding closest pairs of numbers, checking for duplicates, and calculating frequency distributions. Sorting also enables efficient algorithms for computing medians, convex hulls, and
Welcome to International Journal of Engineering Research and Development (IJERD)IJERD Editor
The document compares the use of Tabu Search and Simulated Annealing algorithms for cryptanalysis of the Simplified Data Encryption Standard (S-DES) cipher. It provides background on S-DES encryption and describes how Tabu Search and Simulated Annealing work for solving combinatorial optimization problems like cryptanalysis. The paper analyzes the performance of each method on cryptanalyzing S-DES and finds that Tabu Search performs better than Simulated Annealing for this NP-Hard problem.
The document describes bucket sort and radix sort algorithms. It provides examples to illustrate how each algorithm works. Specifically:
1) Bucket sort works by counting the number of objects that fall into multiple "buckets" based on a certain value like size or weight. It then places the objects in the correct order.
2) Radix sort sorts data based on individual digits of a number, starting from the least significant digit to the most significant. It repeatedly performs bucket sorts on each digit to fully sort the data.
3) Examples show the step-by-step process of bucket sort and LSD radix sort on sample input data to produce a sorted output.
The document discusses the merge sort algorithm. Merge sort works by recursively dividing an unsorted list in half until each sublist contains one element, and then merging the sublists back together in sorted order. This can be done by dividing the list, sorting each half via recursive calls, and then using a merge process to combine the now-sorted halves into a fully sorted list. The document provides examples of merging two sorted lists and walking through the full merge sort process on a sample input list. It analyzes the time complexity of merge sort as O(n log n) and discusses in-place versus double-storage implementations.
Merge sort analysis and its real time applicationsyazad dumasia
The document provides an analysis of the merge sort algorithm and its applications in real-time. It begins with introducing sorting and different sorting techniques. Then it describes the merge sort algorithm, explaining the divide, conquer, and combine steps. It analyzes the time complexity of merge sort, showing that it has O(n log n) runtime. Finally, it discusses some real-time applications of merge sort, such as recommending similar products to users on e-commerce websites based on purchase history.
(1) The document discusses algorithms analysis using the divide and conquer paradigm and the master theorem. It analyzes the running times of binary search, merge sort, and quicksort using the master theorem.
(2) For quicksort, it shows that picking a random pivot element leads to an expected running time of O(n log n) since it balances the problem sizes on both sides of the pivot in each recursive call.
(3) It ultimately derives that the expected running time of quicksort is O(n log n).
This document discusses algorithms for sorting and searching data. It introduces basic data structures like arrays and linked lists. Different sorting algorithms are described like insertion sort, shell sort, and quicksort. Dictionaries that allow efficient insertion, search and deletion are also covered, including hash tables, binary search trees, red-black trees, and skip lists. The document provides pseudocode for the algorithms and estimates their time complexity using Big O notation. Source code implementations of the algorithms in C and Visual Basic are available for download.
The document summarizes cryptographic algorithms DES and AES. It describes the basic concepts of encryption, the history and workings of DES including key generation and encryption/decryption processes. It then explains the AES cipher which was selected to replace DES, including the cipher structure involving substitution, shifting, mixing and adding round keys in multiple rounds of processing. The key expansion process is also summarized.
LF Energy Webinar: Carbon Data Specifications: Mechanisms to Improve Data Acc...DanBrown980551
This LF Energy webinar took place June 20, 2024. It featured:
-Alex Thornton, LF Energy
-Hallie Cramer, Google
-Daniel Roesler, UtilityAPI
-Henry Richardson, WattTime
In response to the urgency and scale required to effectively address climate change, open source solutions offer significant potential for driving innovation and progress. Currently, there is a growing demand for standardization and interoperability in energy data and modeling. Open source standards and specifications within the energy sector can also alleviate challenges associated with data fragmentation, transparency, and accessibility. At the same time, it is crucial to consider privacy and security concerns throughout the development of open source platforms.
This webinar will delve into the motivations behind establishing LF Energy’s Carbon Data Specification Consortium. It will provide an overview of the draft specifications and the ongoing progress made by the respective working groups.
Three primary specifications will be discussed:
-Discovery and client registration, emphasizing transparent processes and secure and private access
-Customer data, centering around customer tariffs, bills, energy usage, and full consumption disclosure
-Power systems data, focusing on grid data, inclusive of transmission and distribution networks, generation, intergrid power flows, and market settlement data
Elasticity vs. State? Exploring Kafka Streams Cassandra State StoreScyllaDB
kafka-streams-cassandra-state-store' is a drop-in Kafka Streams State Store implementation that persists data to Apache Cassandra.
By moving the state to an external datastore the stateful streams app (from a deployment point of view) effectively becomes stateless. This greatly improves elasticity and allows for fluent CI/CD (rolling upgrades, security patching, pod eviction, ...).
It also can also help to reduce failure recovery and rebalancing downtimes, with demos showing sporty 100ms rebalancing downtimes for your stateful Kafka Streams application, no matter the size of the application’s state.
As a bonus accessing Cassandra State Stores via 'Interactive Queries' (e.g. exposing via REST API) is simple and efficient since there's no need for an RPC layer proxying and fanning out requests to all instances of your streams application.
The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) invited Taylor Paschal, Knowledge & Information Management Consultant at Enterprise Knowledge, to speak at a Knowledge Management Lunch and Learn hosted on June 12, 2024. All Office of Administration staff were invited to attend and received professional development credit for participating in the voluntary event.
The objectives of the Lunch and Learn presentation were to:
- Review what KM ‘is’ and ‘isn’t’
- Understand the value of KM and the benefits of engaging
- Define and reflect on your “what’s in it for me?”
- Share actionable ways you can participate in Knowledge - - Capture & Transfer
CNSCon 2024 Lightning Talk: Don’t Make Me Impersonate My IdentityCynthia Thomas
Identities are a crucial part of running workloads on Kubernetes. How do you ensure Pods can securely access Cloud resources? In this lightning talk, you will learn how large Cloud providers work together to share Identity Provider responsibilities in order to federate identities in multi-cloud environments.
Day 4 - Excel Automation and Data ManipulationUiPathCommunity
👉 Check out our full 'Africa Series - Automation Student Developers (EN)' page to register for the full program: https://bit.ly/Africa_Automation_Student_Developers
In this fourth session, we shall learn how to automate Excel-related tasks and manipulate data using UiPath Studio.
📕 Detailed agenda:
About Excel Automation and Excel Activities
About Data Manipulation and Data Conversion
About Strings and String Manipulation
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
Excel Automation with the Modern Experience in Studio
Data Manipulation with Strings in Studio
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Test Management as Chapter 5 of ISTQB Foundation. Topics covered are Test Organization, Test Planning and Estimation, Test Monitoring and Control, Test Execution Schedule, Test Strategy, Risk Management, Defect Management
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ScyllaDB Real-Time Event Processing with CDCScyllaDB
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TrustArc Webinar - Your Guide for Smooth Cross-Border Data Transfers and Glob...TrustArc
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The Global CBPR Forum launched the new Global Cross-Border Privacy Rules framework in May 2024 to ensure that privacy compliance and regulatory differences across participating jurisdictions do not block a business's ability to deliver its products and services worldwide.
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The best thing about databases is that they always work as intended, and never suffer any downtime. You'll never see a system go offline because of a database outage. In this talk, Bo Ingram -- staff engineer at Discord and author of ScyllaDB in Action --- dives into an outage with one of their ScyllaDB clusters, showing how a stressed ScyllaDB cluster looks and behaves during an incident. You'll learn about how to diagnose issues in your clusters, see how external failure modes manifest in ScyllaDB, and how you can avoid making a fault too big to tolerate.
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In our second session, we shall learn all about the main features and fundamentals of UiPath Studio that enable us to use the building blocks for any automation project.
📕 Detailed agenda:
Variables and Datatypes
Workflow Layouts
Arguments
Control Flows and Loops
Conditional Statements
💻 Extra training through UiPath Academy:
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MongoDB vs ScyllaDB: Tractian’s Experience with Real-Time MLScyllaDB
Tractian, an AI-driven industrial monitoring company, recently discovered that their real-time ML environment needed to handle a tenfold increase in data throughput. In this session, JP Voltani (Head of Engineering at Tractian), details why and how they moved to ScyllaDB to scale their data pipeline for this challenge. JP compares ScyllaDB, MongoDB, and PostgreSQL, evaluating their data models, query languages, sharding and replication, and benchmark results. Attendees will gain practical insights into the MongoDB to ScyllaDB migration process, including challenges, lessons learned, and the impact on product performance.
2. The merge
For query (T2 AND T3)
(Step1): Maintain pointers of posting lists
and walk through the posting lists
simultaneously
(Step2): At each step compare the DocID of
both pointers 2
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3. The merge
For query (T2 AND T3)
(Step2b): The DocID of posting list T3 is
small, the pointer of T3 posting list is
advanced
(Step2a): if both DocIDs are same, then
put them in merge list, and advance both
pointers
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4. The merge
For query (T2 AND T3)
What will be the next step?
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5. The merge
Walk through the two postings
simultaneously, in time linear in the total
number of postings entries
For query (T2 AND T3)
5
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6.
7. Merging Posting Lists
If posting list lengths are x and y, merge
takes O(x+y) operations
the complexity of querying is O(n)
What is n here?
Crucial: postings sorted by docID.
8. Query optimization
What is the best order for query
processing?
Consider a query that is an AND of n
terms.
For each of the n terms, get its postings,
then AND them together.
T2
T3
T4
1 2 3 5 8 16 21 34
2 4 8 16 32 64 128
13 16
Query: T3 AND T2 AND T4 8
9. Query optimization example
Process in order of increasing freq:
start with smallest set, then keep cutting
further.
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Execute the query as (T4 AND T2) AND T3.
T2
T3
T4
1 2 3 5 8 16 21 34
2 4 8 16 32 64 128
13 16 21
11. Exercise
Recommend a query
processing order for
Term Freq
eyes 213312
kaleidoscope 87009
marmalade 107913
skies 271658
tangerine 46653
trees 316812
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(tangerine OR trees) AND
(marmalade OR skies) AND
(kaleidoscope OR eyes)
13. Recall basic merge
Walk through the two postings
simultaneously, in time linear in the total
number of postings entries
128
31
2 4 8 41 48 64
1 2 3 8 11 17 21
T2
T3
2 8
If the list lengths are x and y, the merge takes O(x+y)
operations.
Can we do better?
Yes (if index isn’t changing too fast). 13
14. Augment postings with skip pointers
(at indexing time)
Why?
To skip postings that will not figure in the
search results.
How?
Where do we place skip pointers?
128
2 4 8 41 48 64
31
1 2 3 8 11 17 21
31
11
41 128
14
15. Query processing with skip pointers
128
2 4 8 41 48 64
31
1 2 3 8 11 17 21
31
11
41 128
Suppose we’ve stepped through the lists until we process 8
on each list. We match it and advance.
We then have 41 and 11 on the lower. 11 is smaller.
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16. Where do we place skips?
Tradeoff:
More skips shorter skip spans more
likely to skip. But lots of comparisons to skip
pointers.
Fewer skips few pointer comparison, but
then long skip spans few successful skips.
16
17. A simple heuristic for placing skips, which
has been found to work well in practice,
is that for a postings list of length p, use
√p evenly-spaced skip pointers.
Where do we place skips?
18. Quiz
We have a two-word query.
t1=[4,6,10,12,14,16,18,20,22,32,47,81,120,1
22,157,180]
t2= [47].
Work out how many comparisons would be done to
intersect the two postings lists with the following two
strategies. Briefly justify your answers:
Using standard postings lists
Using postings lists stored with skip pointers, with a skip length
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19. Solution
a) The number of comparisons would be
11 as shown in the following.
(4,47), (6,47), (10,47), (12,47), (14,47), (16,47), (18,47), (20,47),
(22,47), (32,47),(47,47)
b) Since the skip length of 16 = 4, the postings lists with
skip pointers would be 4 → 14, 14 → 22, 22 → 120, 120
→ 180. the number of comparisons would be 6;
(4,47), (14,47), (22,47), (120,47), (32,47),(47,47).
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