This paper presents MobiQuery, a spatiotemporal query service that allows mobile users to periodically gather information from their surrounding areas through a wireless sensor ne...
Users today are struggling to integrate a broad range of information sources providing di erent levels of query capabilities. Currently, data sources with di erent and limitedcapa...
Yannis Papakonstantinou, Ashish Gupta, Laura M. Ha...
In this paper we compare four selection strategies in evolutionary optimization of information retrieval (IR) in a question answering setting. The IR index has been augmented by li...
DHTs are scalable, self-organizing, and adaptive to underlying topology changes, thus being a promising infrastructure for realizing efficient Web service discovery. Range queries...
We present the Priority R-tree, or PR-tree, which is the first R-tree variant that always answers a window query using O((N/B)1-1/d + T/B) I/Os, where N is the number of ddimensio...
Lars Arge, Mark de Berg, Herman J. Haverkort, Ke Y...