Generating query-answering plans for information gathering agents requires to translate a user query, formulated in terms of a set of virtual relations, to a query that uses relat...
Ad auctions in sponsored search support"broad match"that allows an advertiser to target a large number of queries while bidding only on a limited number. While giving mo...
Eyal Even-Dar, Vahab S. Mirrokni, S. Muthukrishnan...
We present an annotation management system for relational databases. In this system, every piece of data in a relation is assumed to have zero or more annotations associated with ...
Deepavali Bhagwat, Laura Chiticariu, Wang Chiew Ta...
In a typical content-based image retrieval (CBIR) system, query results are a set of images sorted by feature similarities with respect to the query. However, images with high fea...
How does the web search behavior of “rich” and “poor” people differ? Do men and women tend to click on different results for the same query? What are some queries almost...