sets of research abstracts that may be retrieved by a digital library or search engine in response to a user query. y dissertation abstracts were selected as the sample domain in t...
Shiyan Ou, Christopher S. G. Khoo, Dion Hoe-Lian G...
The skyline operator was first proposed in 2001 for retrieving interesting tuples from a dataset. Since then, 100+ skyline-related papers have been published; however, we discove...
Automated tools for mediating incoming interruptions are necessary in order to balance the concentration required for software development with the need to collaborate and absorb ...
Users without knowledge of schemas or structured query languages have difficulties in accessing information stored in databases. Commercial and research efforts have focused on key...
Scienti c research addressing global change continues to generate large quantities of information for analysis and understanding. However, the volume, distributed nature, and dive...
Betty H. C. Cheng, Robert H. Bourdeau, Gerald C. G...