The Boolean semantics of SQL queries cannot adequately capture the "fuzzy" preferences and "soft" criteria required in non-traditional data retrieval applicati...
Chengkai Li, Min Wang, Lipyeow Lim, Haixun Wang, K...
The next wave in search technology will be driven by the identification, extraction, and exploitation of real-world entities represented in unstructured textual sources. Search sy...
Since the XML format became a de facto standard for structured documents, the IT research and industry have developed a number of XML editors to help users produce structured docu...
Reverse nearest neighbor (RNN) queries have a broad application base such as decision support, profile-based marketing, resource allocation, data mining, etc. Previous work on RNN ...
The semantic web is expected to have an impact at least as big as that of the existing HTML based web, if not greater. However, the challenge lays in creating this semantic web an...