XML query languages typically allow the specification of structural patterns of elements. Finding the occurrences of such patterns in an XML tree is the key operation in XML quer...
Supporting ranking queries in database systems has been a popular research topic recently. However, there is a lack of study on supporting ranking queries in data warehouses where...
Retrieval in a multimedia database usually involves combining information from different modalities of data, such as text and images. However, all modalities of the data may not b...
Abraham Bagherjeiran, Nicole S. Love, Chandrika Ka...
Sponsored search systems are tasked with matching queries to relevant advertisements. The current state-of-the-art matching algorithms expand the user's query using a variety...
Andrei Z. Broder, Peter Ciccolo, Evgeniy Gabrilovi...
This paper examines the problem of finding an optimal policy for a Partially Observable Markov Decision Process (POMDP) when the model is not known or is only poorly specified. W...