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GIS
2010
ACM
13 years 6 months ago
Decentralized querying of topological relations between regions without using localization
This paper proposes an efficient, decentralized algorithm for determining the topological relationship between two regions monitored by a geosensor network. Many centralized algo...
Matt Duckham, Myeong Hun Jeong, Sanjiang Li, Joche...
ECSQARU
2009
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Local Computation Schemes with Partially Ordered Preferences
Many computational problems linked to reasoning under uncertainty can be expressed in terms of computing the marginal(s) of the combination of a collection of (local) valuation fun...
Hélène Fargier, Nic Wilson
JASIS
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Analyzing URL queries
This study investigated a relatively unexamined query type, queries composed of URLs. The extent, variation and user click-through behavior was examined to determine the intent be...
Wei Meng Lee, Mark Sanderson
ACL
2008
13 years 9 months ago
Improving Search Results Quality by Customizing Summary Lengths
Web search engines today typically show results as a list of titles and short snippets that summarize how the retrieved documents are related to the query. However, recent researc...
Michael Kaisser, Marti A. Hearst, John B. Lowe
VLDB
1987
ACM
100views Database» more  VLDB 1987»
13 years 11 months ago
Optimization of Systems of Algebraic Equations for Evaluating Datalog Queries
A Datalog program can be translated into a system of fixpoint equations of relational algebra; this paper studies how such a system can be solved and optimized for a particular qu...
Stefano Ceri, Letizia Tanca