Geographic information retrieval encompasses important tasks including finding the location of a user, and locations relevant to their search queries. Web-based search engines rec...
Many valuable text databases on the web have non-crawlable contents that are "hidden" behind search interfaces. Metasearchers are helpful tools for searching over multip...
Database selection is an important step when searching over large numbers of distributed text databases. The database selection task relies on statistical summaries of the databas...
We present a transformation scheme that mediates between description logics (DL) or RDF-encoded ontologies and type hierarchies in feature logics (FL). The DL-to-FL direction is i...
Management and analysis of streaming data has become crucial with its applications in web, sensor data, network traffic data, and stock market. Data streams consist of mostly nume...