A number of existing information retrieval systems propose the notion of query context to combine the knowledge of query and user into retrieval to reveal the most exact descripti...
Keke Cai, Chun Chen, Jiajun Bu, Peng Huang, Zhimin...
The trends of miniaturization and increasing storage capabilities for portable music players made it possible to carry increasingly more music on small portable devices, but it al...
Fabio Vignoli, Rob van Gulik, Huub van de Wetering
Geographic information systems (GIS) must support large georeferenced data sets. Due to the size of these data sets finding exact answers to spatial queries can be very time consum...
Wan D. Bae, Shayma Alkobaisi, Scott T. Leutenegger
We study the amount of knowledge about the network that is required in order to efficiently solve a task concerning this network. The impact of available information on the effici...
Typically, users interact with database systems by formulating queries. However, many times users do not have a clear understanding of their information needs or the exact content...