Existing keyword-search systems in relational databases require users to submit a complete query to compute answers. Often users feel "left in the dark" when they have l...
The goal of this paper is to permit secure outsourced system evaluation. We propose a method for generating synthetic databases and obfuscating a workload of queries in order to pr...
Query expansion is extensively applied in information retrieval systems, such as search engines. Most conventional approaches to query expansion have been developed based on textua...
The quadratic form distance (QFD) has been utilized as an effective similarity function in multimedia retrieval, in particular, when a histogram representation of objects is used...
In this paper we present a system which uses ontological resources and a gene name variation generation tool to expand concepts in the original query. The novelty of our approach ...
Nicola Stokes, Yi Li, Lawrence Cavedon, Eric Huang...