This paper presents an approach to automatically optimize the retrieval quality of ranking functions. Taking a Swarm Intelligence perspective, we present a novel method, SwarmRank...
Ernesto Diaz-Aviles, Wolfgang Nejdl, Lars Schmidt-...
materialized view selection is a non-trivial task. Hence, its complexity must be reduced. A judicious choice of views must be costdriven and influenced by the workload experienced...
In this paper, we show that representation and reasoning techniques used in traditional knowledge engineering and the emerging Semantic Web can play an important role for heteroge...
We describe a framework for automatically selecting a summary set of photographs from a large collection of geo-referenced photos. The summary algorithm is based on spatial patter...
Alexander Jaffe, Mor Naaman, Tamir Tassa, Marc Dav...
Relevance feedback is the state-of-the-art approach for adjusting query results to the needs of the users. This work extends the existing framework of image retrieval with relevan...
Euripides G. M. Petrakis, Klaydios Kontis, Epimeni...