Maintaining strict static score order of inverted lists is a heuristic used by search engines to improve the quality of query results when the entire inverted lists cannot be proc...
Chavdar Botev, Nadav Eiron, Marcus Fontoura, Ning ...
The exploration of large information spaces is a difficult task, especially if the user is not familiar with the terminology used to describe information. Conceptual models of a do...
Heiner Stuckenschmidt, Anita de Waard, Ravinder Bh...
Expressing preferences when querying databases is a natural way to avoid empty results and information flooding, and in general to rank results so that the user may first see the ...
— Results of queries by personal names often contain documents related to several people because of the namesake problem. In order to differentiate documents related to different...
For their scalability needs, data-intensive Web applications can use a Database Scalability Service (DBSS), which caches applications' query results and answers queries on th...
Amit Manjhi, Phillip B. Gibbons, Anastassia Ailama...