Abstract. The mathematical concept of document resemblance captures well the informal notion of syntactic similarity. The resemblance can be estimated using a fixed size “sketch...
The World Wide Web provides a huge distributed web database. However, information in the web database is free formatted and unorganized. Traditional keyword-based retrieval approa...
H. L. Wang, W. K. Shih, C. N. Hsu, Y. S. Chen, Y. ...
This paper deals with the evaluation of acyclic Boolean conjunctive queries in relational databases. By well-known results of Yannakakis [1981], this problem is solvable in polynom...
Modern disk drives read-ahead data and reorder incoming requests in a workload-dependent fashion. This improves their performance, but makes simple analytical models of them inade...
Elizabeth A. M. Shriver, Arif Merchant, John Wilke...
The goal of the InfoSleuth project at MCC is to exploit and synthesize new technologies into a uni ed system that retrieves and processes information in an ever-changing network o...
Roberto J. Bayardo Jr., William Bohrer, Richard S....