We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...
This paper describes a domain independent, automatically trained call router which directs customer calls based on their response to an open-ended "How may I direct your call...
User queries on extensible markup language (XML) documents are typically expressed as regular path expressions. A variety of indexing techniques for efficiently retrieving the re...
—When a multidatabase system contains textual database systems (i.e., information retrieval systems), queries against the global schema of the multidatabase system may contain a ...
Weiyi Meng, Clement T. Yu, Wei Wang 0010, Naphtali...
Abstract--Expertise matching, aiming to find the alignment between experts and queries, is a common problem in many real applications such as conference paper-reviewer assignment, ...