: Random walk and flooding are basic mechanisms for searching unstructured overlays. This paper shows that node coverage is an important metric for query performance in random grap...
We survey many of the measures used to describe and evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of large-scale search services. These measures, herein visualized versus verbalized, ...
The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
Policy enforcement is an integral part of many applications. Policies are often used to control access to sensitive information. Current policy specification languages give users ...
In this paper, we propose a novel compact tree (Ctree) for XML indexing, which provides not only concise path summaries at the group level but also detailed child-parent links at ...