Efficient query processing in P2P-based Web integration systems poses a variety of challenges resulting from the strict decentralization and limited knowledge. As a special probl...
This paper investigates the problem of incremental joins of multiple ranked data sets when the join condition is a list of arbitrary user-defined predicates on the input tuples. ...
Apostol Natsev, Yuan-Chi Chang, John R. Smith, Chu...
Top-k queries on large multi-attribute data sets are fundamental operations in information retrieval and ranking applications. In this article, we initiate research on the anytime ...
Benjamin Arai, Gautam Das, Dimitrios Gunopulos, Ni...
In the interest of establishing robust benchmarks for search efficiency, we conducted a series of tests on symbolic databases of musical incipits and themes taken from several di...
Craig Stuart Sapp, Yi-Wen Liu, Eleanor Selfridge-F...
As one of the most effective query expansion approaches, local feedback is able to automatically discover new query terms and improve retrieval accuracy for different retrieval ...