In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Peer-to-peer systems are mainly used for object sharing although they can provide the infrastructure for many other applications. In this paper, we extend the idea of object shari...
Ozgur D. Sahin, Abhishek Gupta, Divyakant Agrawal,...
Complex queries often contain common or similar subexpressions, either within a single query or among multiple queries submitted as a batch. If so, query execution time can be imp...
Jingren Zhou, Johann Christoph Freytag, Per-Å...
In data applications such as information integration, there can be limited access patterns to relations, i.e., binding patterns require values to be specified for certain attribut...
Probabilistic logic programs (PLPs) define a set of probability distribution functions (PDFs) over the set of all Herbrand interpretations of the underlying logical language. When...
Matthias Broecheler, Gerardo I. Simari, V. S. Subr...