An enormous amount of information available via the Internet exists. Much of this data is in the form of text-based documents. These documents cover a variety of topics that are v...
The dramatic proliferation of sophisticated networks has resulted in a growing need for supporting effective querying and mining methods over such large-scale graph-structured da...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
Abstract-- We introduce join scheduling algorithms that employ a balanced network utilization metric to optimize the use of all network paths in a global-scale database federation....
Xiaodan Wang, Randal C. Burns, Andreas Terzis, Amo...
Similarity joins have been studied as key operations in multiple application domains, e.g., record linkage, data cleaning, multimedia and video applications, and phenomena detectio...