There are a lot of application domains, e.g. sensor databases, traffic management or recognition systems, where objects have to be compared based on vague and uncertain data. Feat...
Thomas Bernecker, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Ren...
Current search engines rely on centralized page ranking algorithms which compute page rank values as single (global) values for each Web page. Recent work on topic-sensitive PageRa...
Paul-Alexandru Chirita, Daniel Olmedilla, Wolfgang...
Ranking documents in a selected corpus plays an important role in information retrieval systems. Despite notable advances in this direction, with continuously accumulating text do...
Byung-Hoon Park, Nagiza F. Samatova, Rajesh Munava...
Background: A finite state machine manipulating information-carrying DNA strands can be used to perform autonomous molecular-scale computations at the cellular level. Results: We ...
Uncertain data is inherent in a few important applications such as environmental surveillance and mobile object tracking. Top-k queries (also known as ranking queries) are often n...