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GIS
2008
ACM
14 years 8 months ago
The multi-rule partial sequenced route query
Trip planning search (TPS) represents an important class of queries in Geographic Information Systems (GIS). In many real-world applications, TPS requests are issued with a number...
Haiquan Chen, Wei-Shinn Ku, Min-Te Sun, Roger Zimm...
SIGMOD
2006
ACM
238views Database» more  SIGMOD 2006»
14 years 7 months ago
Continuous monitoring of top-k queries over sliding windows
Given a dataset P and a preference function f, a top-k query retrieves the k tuples in P with the highest scores according to f. Even though the problem is well-studied in convent...
Kyriakos Mouratidis, Spiridon Bakiras, Dimitris Pa...
PRICAI
1998
Springer
13 years 12 months ago
Point-Based Approaches to Qualitative Temporal Reasoning
Weaddress the general problemof finding algorithms for efficient, qualitative, point-basedtemporalreasoning over a set of operations. Weconsider general reasonerstailored for temp...
Tim Van Allen, James P. Delgrande, Arvind Gupta
CLEF
2005
Springer
14 years 1 months ago
20th Century Esfinge (Sphinx) Solving the Riddles at CLEF 2005
Abstract. Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system. It tries to apply simple techniques to large amounts of text. Esfinge participated last year in the mono...
Luís Costa
EDBT
2009
ACM
208views Database» more  EDBT 2009»
14 years 2 months ago
Flexible and efficient querying and ranking on hyperlinked data sources
There has been an explosion of hyperlinked data in many domains, e.g., the biological Web. Expressive query languages and effective ranking techniques are required to convert this...
Ramakrishna Varadarajan, Vagelis Hristidis, Louiqa...