Modern database applications including computeraided design (CAD), medical imaging, or molecular biology impose new requirements on spatial query processing. Particular problems a...
This paper addresses the issue of query refinement, which involves reformulating ill-formed search queries in order to enhance relevance of search results. Query refinement typica...
In order to utilize geographic web information for digital city applications, we have been developing a geographic web search system, KyotoSEARCH. When users retrieve geographic in...
Ryong Lee, H. Shiina, Taro Tezuka, Yusuke Yokota, ...
Background: High throughput technologies often require the retrieval of large data sets of sequences. Retrieval of EMBL or GenBank entries using keywords is easy using tools such ...
This paper focuses on competitive function evaluation in the context of computing with priced information. A function f is given together with a cost cx for each variable x of f. ...