We present a semantic caching approach for optimizing the performance of information mediators. A critical problem with information mediators, particularly those gathering and int...
The wide popularity of free-and-easy keyword based searches over World Wide Web has fueled the demand for incorporating keyword-based search over structured databases. However, mo...
Bei Yu, Guoliang Li, Karen R. Sollins, Anthony K. ...
In order to provide a portable and accurate typing system for the unambiguous characterization of pathogenic Escherichia coli isolates to the scientific community, we have constru...
Weihong Qi, David W. Lacher, Alyssa C. Bumbaugh, K...
We have developed Environmental Scenario Search Engine (ESSE) for parallel data mining of a set of conditions inside distributed, very large databases from multiple environmental ...
Mikhail N. Zhizhin, Eric A. Kihn, Vassily Lyutsare...
Positional ranking functions, widely used in web search engines, improve result quality by exploiting the positions of the query terms within documents. However, it is well known ...