To handle the overwhelming amount of information currently available, personalization systems allow users to specify the information that interests them through preferences. Most ...
Modern maps provide a variety of information about roads and their surrounding landscape allowing navigation systems to go beyond simple shortest path computation. In this demo, w...
Franz Graf, Hans-Peter Kriegel, Matthias Renz, Mat...
The spatio-textual spreadsheet is a conventional spreadsheet where spatial attribute values are specified textually. Techniques are presented to automatically find the textually-s...
Hanan Samet, Jagan Sankaranarayanan, Jon Sperling,...
The top-k retrieval problem requires finding k objects most similar to a given query object. Similarities between objects are most often computed as aggregated similarities of the...
Due to its considerable ease of use, relational keyword search (R-KWS) has become increasingly popular. Its simplicity, however, comes at the cost of intensive query processing. Sp...