Similarity retrieval have been widely used in many practical search applications. A similarity query model can be viewed as a logical combination of a set of similarity predicates....
Detecting and eliminating fuzzy duplicates is a critical data cleaning task that is required by many applications. Fuzzy duplicates are multiple seemingly distinct tuples which re...
Abstract E-commerce, web-based booking systems, and on-line auction systems are only a few examples that demonstrate how WWW sites are evolving from hypermedia information reposito...
Given a drug under development, what are other drugs or biochemical compounds that it might interact with? Early answers to this question, by mining the literature, are valuable f...
A mechanistic view of software component assembly implies exact matching and fitting of the particular components. We argue that components for large-scale software construction s...