Typical web-database systems receive read-only queries, that generate dynamic web pages as a response, and writeonly updates, that keep information up-to-date. Users expect short ...
There are more spots than immediately obvious in XQuery expressions where order is immaterial for evaluation-this affects most notably, but not exclusively, expressions in the sco...
We introduce IR-Wire, a tool for information retrieval research and education in peer-to-peer file-sharing systems. Built on top of LimeWire's implementation of the popular G...
Linh Thai Nguyen, Wai Gen Yee, Dongmei Jia, Ophir ...
Networked information systems require strong security guarantees because of the new threats that they face. Various forms of encryption have been proposed to deal with this proble...
Abstract-- We present an original graph embedding to speedup distance-range and k-nearest neighbor queries on static and/or dynamic objects located on a (weighted) graph. Our metho...
Abstract-- Despite its promise, RFID technology presents numerous challenges, including incomplete data, lack of location and containment information, and very high volumes. In thi...
Richard Cocci, Thanh Tran 0002, Yanlei Diao, Prash...
Similarity search has been widely used in many applications such as information retrieval, image data analysis, and time-series matching. Specifically, a similarity query retrieves...
This paper describes Orchid, a system that converts declarative mapping specifications into data flow specifications s) and vice versa. Orchid provides an abstract operator model t...
There has been a recent resurgence of interest in research on noisy and incomplete data. Many applications require information to be recovered from such data. For example, in sens...
Junyi Xie, Jun Yang 0001, Yuguo Chen, Haixun Wang,...