Keyword search is an effective approach for most users to search for information because they do not need to learn complex query languages or the underlying structures of the data....
— Location-based services (LBS) have been widely accepted by mobile users. Many LBS users have direction-aware search requirement that answers must be in a search direction. Howe...
Users often try to accumulate information on a topic of interest from multiple information sources. In this case a user's informational need might be expressed in terms of an...
We consider the problem of efficiently producing ranked results for keyword search queries over hyperlinked XML documents. Evaluating keyword search queries over hierarchical XML ...
Lin Guo, Feng Shao, Chavdar Botev, Jayavel Shanmug...