Database queries are often exploratory and users often find their queries return too many answers, many of them irrelevant. Existing work either categorizes or ranks the results t...
Many large-scale Web applications that require ranked top-k retrieval are implemented using inverted indices. An inverted index represents a sparse term-document matrix, where non...
George Beskales, Marcus Fontoura, Maxim Gurevich, ...
A number of applications require selecting targets for specific contents on the basis of criteria defined by the contents providers rather than selecting documents in response to ...
We present a new technique to examine the trade-off regions of a circuit where its competing performances become “simultaneously optimal”, i.e. Pareto optimal. It is based on ...
With an increasing number of Web services providing similar functionalities, Quality of Service (QoS) is becoming an important criterion for selection of the best available servic...
Ziqiang Xu, Patrick Martin, Wendy Powley, Farhana ...