There has been a large amount of research on efficient document retrieval in both IR and web search areas. One important technique to improve retrieval efficiency is early termina...
—A major challenge faced by today’s information systems is that of evolution as data usage evolves or new data resources become available. Modern organizations sometimes exchan...
Abstract. We present the results of UMBC’s participation in the Web and Novelty tracks. We explored various heuristics-based link analysis approaches to the Topic Distillation ta...
Srikanth Kallurkar, Yongmei Shi, R. Scott Cost, Ch...
Web applications typically interact with a back-end database to retrieve persistent data and then present the data to the user as dynamically generated output, such as HTML web pa...
Flood control for reservoirs require operations in a dynamic and cooperative manner in order to respond to the changing flood control conditions. There is an increasing emphasis on...
Chuntian Cheng, Kwok-wing Chau, Gang Li, Xiang-Yan...