To receive personalized web services, the user has to provide personal information and preferences, in addition to the query itself, to the web service. However, detailed personal...
We consider the problem of improving the efficiency of query processing on an XML interface of a relational database, for predefined query workloads. The main contribution of this ...
Long queries frequently contain many extraneous terms that hinder retrieval of relevant documents. We present techniques to reduce long queries to more effective shorter ones tha...
The network discovery (verification) problem asks for a minimum subset Q V of queries in an undirected graph G = (V, E) such that these queries discover all edges and non-edges o...
Thomas Erlebach, Alexander Hall, Michael Hoffmann ...
Recent advances in click model have positioned it as an attractive method for representing user preferences in web search and online advertising. Yet, most of the existing works f...
Zeyuan Allen Zhu, Weizhu Chen, Tom Minka, Chenguan...