A large number of computer tasks can be modeled as the search for an object near a given query. From multimedia databases to learning algorithms, data mining and pattern recognitio...
The standard SQL assumes that the users are aware of all tables and their schemas to write queries. This assumption may be valid when the users deal with a relatively small number...
We present a non-traditional retrieval problem we call subtopic retrieval. The subtopic retrieval problem is concerned with finding documents that cover many different subtopics ...
ChengXiang Zhai, William W. Cohen, John D. Laffert...
Centralized Resource Description Framework (RDF) repositories have limitations both in their failure tolerance and in their scalability. Existing Peer-to-Peer (P2P) RDF repositori...
The Transaction Processing Performance Council (TPC) is completing development of TPC-DS, a new generation industry standard decision support benchmark. The TPC-DS benchmark, firs...