The common paradigm of searching and retrieving information on the Web is based on keyword-based search using one or more search engines, and then browsing through the large numbe...
An important research issue in multimedia databases is the retrieval of similar objects. For most applications in multimedia databases, an exact search is not meaningful. Thus, mu...
The tagging technique has been widely applied in existing Web 2.0 systems, where users label resources with tags for effective classification and efficient retrieval of resource...
Yueguo Chen, Su Chen, Yu Gu, Mei Hui, Feng Li, Che...
Understanding the differences between contrasting groups is a fundamental task in data analysis. This realization has led to the development of a new special purpose data mining t...
Geoffrey I. Webb, Shane M. Butler, Douglas A. Newl...
When selecting alternatives from large amounts of data, trade-offs play a vital role in everyday decision making. In databases this is primarily reflected by the top-k retrieval p...