To meet users’ growing needs for accessing pre-existing heterogeneous databases, a multidatabase system (MDBS) integrating multiple databases has attracted many researchers recen...
The success of Web search is often limited by a variety of factors. Typical queries are vague and imprecise. At the same time, the Web is a dynamic and unmoderated collection and ...
Determining similarities among multimedia objects is a fundamental task in many content-based retrieval, analysis, mining, and exploration applications. Among state-of-the-art sim...
Abstract. Sensor networks represent a non traditional source of information, as readings generated by sensors flow continuously, leading to an infinite stream of data. Traditiona...
Although personalized search has been proposed for many years and many personalization strategies have been investigated, it is still unclear whether personalization is consistent...