User-defined preferences allow personalized ranking of query results. A user provides a declarative specification of his/her preferences, and the system is expected to use that ...
In searching a repository of business documents, a task of interest is that of using a query signature image to retrieve from a database, other signatures matching the query. The ...
Sargur N. Srihari, Shravya Shetty, Siyuan Chen, Ha...
Collaborative filtering requires a centralized rating database. However, within a peer-to-peer network such a centralized database is not readily available. In this paper, we pro...
Jun Wang, Johan A. Pouwelse, Reginald L. Lagendijk...
In many different application areas, e.g. space observation systems or engineering systems of world-wide operating companies, there is a need for an efficient distributed intersect...
Hans-Peter Kriegel, Peter Kunath, Martin Pfeifle, ...
We study the problem of applying adaptive filters for approximate query processing in a distributed stream environment. We propose filter bound assignment protocols with the obj...
Reynold Cheng, Ben Kao, Sunil Prabhakar, Alan Kwan...