Large search engines process thousands of queries per second over billions of documents, making query processing a major performance bottleneck. An important class of optimization...
We present a hybrid method to turn off-the-shelf information retrieval (IR) systems into future event predictors. Given a query, a time series model is trained on the publication...
We describe a new multi-phase, color-based image retrieval system, FOCUS Fast Object Color-based qUery System, with an online user interface which is capable of identifying mult...
Madirakshi Das, Edward M. Riseman, Bruce A. Draper
Peer-to-peer (P2P) systems are gaining increasing popularity as a scalable means to share data among a large number of autonomous nodes. In this paper, we consider the case in whic...
Deep web search requires a transformation between search keywords and semantically described and well-formed data structures. We approached this problem in our "In the Web of ...