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CIKM
2008
Springer
13 years 11 months ago
Matching task profiles and user needs in personalized web search
Personalization has been deemed one of the major challenges in information retrieval with a significant potential for providing better search experience to individual users. Espec...
Julia Luxenburger, Shady Elbassuoni, Gerhard Weiku...
AI
2006
Springer
13 years 9 months ago
Constraint-based optimization and utility elicitation using the minimax decision criterion
In many situations, a set of hard constraints encodes the feasible configurations of some system or product over which multiple users have distinct preferences. However, making su...
Craig Boutilier, Relu Patrascu, Pascal Poupart, Da...
VLDB
2001
ACM
82views Database» more  VLDB 2001»
14 years 1 months ago
Supporting Incremental Join Queries on Ranked Inputs
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
TKDE
2010
274views more  TKDE 2010»
13 years 7 months ago
Ranked Query Processing in Uncertain Databases
—Recently, many new applications, such as sensor data monitoring and mobile device tracking, raise up the issue of uncertain data management. Compared to “certain” data, the ...
Xiang Lian, Lei Chen 0002
CIKM
2006
Springer
14 years 22 days ago
Heuristic containment check of partial tree-pattern queries in the presence of index graphs
The wide adoption of XML has increased the interest of the database community on tree-structured data management techniques. Querying capabilities are provided through tree-patter...
Dimitri Theodoratos, Stefanos Souldatos, Theodore ...