This paper is concerned with the problem of definition search. Specifically, given a term, we are to retrieve definitional excerpts of the term and rank the extracted excerpts acc...
In this paper, we study the evaluation of skyline queries with partially-ordered attributes. Because such attributes lack a total ordering, traditional index-based evaluation algo...
Today business registries are regarded as means of finding services offered by a business partner. However, business registries might also serve as means of seaching inter-organiza...
Recently web-based educational systems collect vast amounts of data on user patterns, and data mining methods can be applied to these databases to discover interesting associations...
Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli, Gerd Kortemeyer, William F...
Background: As a variety of functional genomic and proteomic techniques become available, there is an increasing need for functional analysis methodologies that integrate heteroge...