Databases in real life are often neither entirely closed-world nor entirely open-world. Indeed, databases in an enterprise are typically partially closed, in which a part of the d...
Abstract. The structural heterogeneity and complexity of XML repositories makes query formulation challenging for users who have little knowledge of XML. To assist its users, an XM...
Word-based Huffman coding has widespread use in information retrieval systems. Besides its compressing power, it also enables the implementation of both indexing and searching sch...
Abstract-- We present an interactive framework for exploring space-time relationships in databases of experimentally collected highresolution biomechanical data. These data describ...
Daniel F. Keefe, Marcus Ewert, William Ribarsky,...
Abstract. In this paper, we describe the design of PIRS, a peer-topeer information retrieval system. PIRS satisfies many of the goals of P2P computing in a way that other P2P IR s...