In this paper, we address the problem of database selection for XML document collections, that is, given a set of collections and a user query, how to rank the collections based o...
We investigate three issues in distributed information retrieval, considering both TREC data and U.S. Patents: (1) topical organization of large text collections, (2) collection r...
Leah S. Larkey, Margaret E. Connell, James P. Call...
In recent years, there has been significant interest in development of ranking functions and efficient top-k retrieval algorithms to help users in ad-hoc search and retrieval in da...
Muhammed Miah, Gautam Das, Vagelis Hristidis, Heik...
An important issue arising from large scale data integration is how to efficiently select the top-K ranking answers from multiple sources while minimizing the transmission cost. T...
Associative classification (AC) has been studied in the areas of content-based multimedia retrieval and semantic concept detection due to its high accuracy. The traditional AC alg...
Lin Lin, Mei-Ling Shyu, Guy Ravitz, Shu-Ching Chen