Despite the importance of ranked queries in numerous applications involving multi-criteria decision making, they are not efficiently supported by traditional database systems. In ...
In existing database systems there is a strong need for searching data according to many attributes. In commercial database platforms, the standard search over multiple attributes...
We present a method of searching text collections that takes advantage of hierarchrical information within documents and integrates searches of structured and unstructured data. W...
M. Catherine McCabe, Jinho Lee, Abdur Chowdhury, D...
In an “uncertain database”, an object o is associated with a multi-dimensional probability density function (pdf), which describes the likelihood that o appears at each positi...
Yufei Tao, Reynold Cheng, Xiaokui Xiao, Wang Kay N...
We present a fast variational deconvolution algorithm that minimizes a quadratic data term subject to a regularization on the 1 -norm of the wavelet coefficients of the solution. ...