Web search engines are facing formidable performance challenges due to data sizes and query loads. The major engines have to process tens of thousands of queries per second over t...
Background: Technological advances in high-throughput techniques and efficient data acquisition methods have resulted in a massive amount of life science data. The data is stored ...
Consider a family of sets and a single set, called the query set. How can one quickly find a member of the family which has a maximal intersection with the query set? Time constra...
Benjamin Hoffmann, Mikhail Lifshits, Yury Lifshits...
Large databases with uncertain information are becoming more common in many applications including data integration, location tracking, and Web search. In these applications, ranki...
We tackle the problem of disambiguating entities on the Web. We propose a user-driven scheme where graphs of entities ? represented by globally identifiable declarative artifacts ...
Hermann de Meer, Karl Aberer, Michael Jost, Parisa...