There are information needs involving costly decisions that cannot be efficiently satisfied through conventional web search engines. Alternately, community centric search can prov...
Yu-Ru Lin, Hari Sundaram, Yun Chi, Jun'ichi Tatemu...
We propose the study of visibly pushdown automata (Vpa) for processing XML documents. Vpas are pushdown automata where the input determines the stack operation, and XML documents ...
Score normalization is indispensable in distributed retrieval and fusion or meta-search where merging of result-lists is required. Distributional approaches to score normalization...
Abstract. In this paper, we present a new approach to indexing multidimensional data that is particularly suitable for the efficient incremental processing of nearest neighbor quer...
Expressing complex OLAP queries using group-by, aggregation, and joins can be extremely difficult. As a result of this, many alternate ways of expressing such queries have been de...